I was actually on my deck and it hit my Starlink dish above me… showered me with sparks. It was incredibly loud and bright 
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glad you weren’t holding the metal pole from a table umbrella or something like that at the time.
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I had a hard time just holding bodily functions at the time 
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Well, if we’re talking lightening strikes, several years back, my church in Columbus New Jersey, got a surge from a pole strike along Main Street. The old (1800s) building took it like a champ. And the new building(2008) would have gotten away Scott free except the surge hit a cordless telephone base via the power cord, pushed through to the hardline copper, and then ran itself all the up the line to were it was fed by the phone system in the new building and fried the system card. The phone system has never quite acted right since but still functional. Think it may have cause damage to the back plane card of the cabinet but it’s good enough.
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I also had a lightning strike a couple weeks ago that knocked out a bunch of networking stuff, some lights, and a couple ring doorbell cameras. So I know your pain when trying to get back online. I did end up upgrading all of my network switches to 2.5 GB networking, so there’s that. But welcome back and glad your glowforge wasn’t affected.
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I do like ring as it works, but…you pay full price for the equipment and have to pay for extra features, and also the big one….
They’ll turn over anything to police, no warrant needed. Why the cops often are handing them out for free for community safety days.
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Welcome back!! So sorry to hear this has happened to you and I can only begin to imagine the frustration and grief this situation has caused you. I’m happy that it seems you nor your family were hurt or even worse. This is just what I call “stuff”, it’s replicable. Your lives, not so much. That being said, I am happy that you are here and happy to hear, you can start creating again. 
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I’m looking at the newest Aqara door cam as a replacement. Still troubleshooting power issues.
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when our house got hit years ago the girls were very young and the thunder was rocking, they were scared and came to our room. we were all in bed and the room lit up like the surface of the sun. and there was an insane crash of thunder instantly. I knew we were hit. I threw clothes on ran outside to look at the roof with a flashlight. no smoke or anything i was stunned. figured out Monday morning it went down the inside of the chimney.
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This is 100% the reason I won’t get one. We have a good system on how that’s supposed to work and that ain’t it!
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The surge entered the house on 23 gauge Cat 6 wire, went through the modem/router and then traveled throughout the house blowing covers off of plug-ins and frying appliances… all in all it could have been much worse so really I just categorize it as a nuisance. It was one more thing in a week where I was having a series of one more things, I’m still incredibly blessed.
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Wow! That’s why we always heed the warning, “when thunder roars, get indoors.” But when it’s instantaneous, what are you gonna do? Especially when they say lightening can affect areas 50 miles away. Does your homeowners insurance cover any of the damages?
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I’m afraid in these times, claims for things, like this, will ultimately lead to significantly higher premiums, or even being dropped.
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Hey Steve, you may still have a virus… you should check it out because there is a Kansas City Chiefs logo on your site… I would see what can be done about this, its not an easy fix… 
JK, good luck this season…
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True, very true. I didn’t think of that.
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No… unless there is structural damage.
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When I last spoke to my insurer about claims for this kind of stuff, they told me it would impact my premiums. This was many years ago, and what pushed me to buy a bunch of UPS’s to protect the stuff we had all around the house. They are far cheaper than the resulting rise in premiums would be.
I had it happen with car insurance. I hit a deer (here in suburban “metro” Atlanta). I have video showing I was driving under the posted limit, and it jumped out of the woods right into my path. Nothing I could do. Over $6000 in damage, and my policy premium immediately doubled.
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Insurance is a racket, but in a country where 90% of people couldn’t afford replacement costs, it’s become a requirement 
As more companies are deciding to declare bankruptcy rather than pay out on the policies they’ve been collecting against for decades, I imagine that may change.
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This is just wrong. Regardless of whether an insurance company goes into bankruptcy, claims will be paid to the limits of the policy. The financials of the operating company have no impact on paying claims. They’re not declaring bankruptcy just to get out of paying claims. In an industry with over 7000 companies, the rate of insolvency is rather low - a handful or so of companies annually.
Insurance companies pay states a premium tax that funds the state’s guaranty fund. When an insurance company becomes insolvent, the guaranty fund takes over and pays claims from the guaranty fund. It usually gets another insurance company to take over the operations so there are claims professionals (not state employees) handling the claims.
Fundamentals of insurance should be a required course for people to graduate high school. It’s funny but the people who complain about their premiums and paying for years to “get nothing” shut right up when their house burns down and $30,000 of premiums magically turn into $800,000 of house rebuild.
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My ex and I have, in the time I’ve known her, paid probably something like $75k in premiums, and that doesn’t include her business interests, I’m speaking just personal home and auto, plus an umbrella liability.
It’s a stretch, but we’ve probably had something like $8k in no-fault claims - including the deer hit I mentioned. All State Farm, and I will never do business with them again.
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