If
you get a direct strike NOTHING survives.
Many
moons ago I had to go to a housing estate where a telegraph pole had been
hit.
Every house on the estate had to have all the phone wiring renewed.
At
one house I pressed the doorbell but nothing happened so I knocked. When
the
owner opened the door I saw why the bell didnt ring. The phone wire and the
wire for the doorbell had been run along the skirting board. The skirting
board was laying at the opposite side of the hall having been blasted off
the
wall.
Another house had a wall mounted phone, the lightning made its way
into
the phone, through the breezeblock to the earthed metal box for the
lightswitch on the other side of the wall. The switch and box were blown
out
of the wall and hit the wall at the other side of the
kitchen.
What
was REALLY SCARY was that I was up a pole about a mile away when the
lightning
hit that pole. I was down the pole in about 2 milliseconds
!!!!!!
Keith
Nightmare!!
Does LV cable survive this sort of thing...or
could a single strike wipe out an entire structured cable
install?
M.
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I was hit by lightning at the last house, it struck an
aerial at the
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