Lightning strike!

[DrEntropy]

About 8:00PM yesterday, a tree in our neighbors' front yard. Twenty minutes later in a REAL rainstorm, ambulance and hazmat show up, took the guy away on a gurney. Back home now, no major injury. The hit burned out an RJ-45 port on our internet router, toasted a small five-port hub I use to "gang" client machines and a couple of my servers in the garage, and scrambled the firewall appliance's settings. A shame I can't charge myself for the "time & materials" !

 

[NutmegCT]

B. Franklin has something which might take care of that.

(The lightning rod - something which attracts lightning to houses. hmmmm)

 

[Gliderman8]

Is the tree going to be removed?
Don’t want it falling on all your repairs

 

[DrEntropy]

B. Franklin has something which might take care of that.

(The lightning rod - something which attracts lightning to houses. hmmmm)

Anything short of a Faraday Cage would be a half-way measure here. "Lightning Capitol of the World".

Is the tree going to be removed?
Don’t want it falling on all your repairs

They're plotting its final demise as we speak. But it's a fifty or sixty footer.

 

[Gliderman8]

They're plotting its final demise as we speak. But it's a fifty or sixty footer.

I had 60 footer fall into my neighbors yard in February. Thankfully no-one hurt and the only damage was that it completely wiped out the neighbors swing set. It required some heavy equipment to cut and haul out of my neighbors back yard. I’ll be cutting down a much, much smaller dead tree in my backyard next week. My chainsaw can handle that.

 

[GregW]

A shame I can't charge myself for the "time & materials" !

Since it is an act of God, you should sue Him.

 

[DNK]

Since it is an act of God, you should sue Him.

Pretty sure he's got the "Johnny Cockran" of all attorney on speed dial