On Thursday, a viscous storm ripped through the area. Luckily there were no tornados like the previous week, but one nasty strike came awfully close. I was working in the office….should have been cowering on the front porch with the rest of the family and had everything unplugged….although I probably never would have thought to unplug the router or the switch or disconnect the laptop from the ethernet. And that is exactly what happened.
In the office, seems that everything that was plugged directly into the Linksys Valet took the hit. We lost the Linksys Valet, the Netgear 8 port gigabit switch, and the nic cards on my laptop and Nick’s desktop.
Yesterday, I went to play a blu ray disc only to find out that the Samsung also took a hit….you can hear it turn on but the display is screwed up and nothing works. Oh well….did want a better one so now I have a reason to upgrade.
All in all, the damage costs are less than the insurance deductible. I guess we got off easy.
So now to close the barn door after all the animals have escaped….we’re putting a big ass surge protected power strip in the living room….redid the office with a new top of the line Netgear 750 router with NOTHING plugged into it except the switch….let that be the sacrificial lamb should anything happen again.
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