Your system struck by lightning? What did you learn?

I lived in Alabama for five years and they certainly have whopping thunder storms down there but, I didn't get hit until I moved to New Hampshire:-(

just unplug when there is a storm brewing and if your going to be gone for days. my friend back in the 70's was sitting listening to music and his tv/fm antenna was struck and it took out his Pioneer turntable, Marantz receiver and Norman speakers

just unplug when there is a storm brewing and if your going to be gone for days. my friend back in the 70's was sitting listening to music and his tv/fm antenna was struck and it took out his Pioneer turntable, Marantz receiver and Norman speakers

Which is great if you know the event is coming, but what do you do about all your other appliances?

The combination of small surges that damage over time plus major appliance damage make whole house protection worthwhile.

I was struck twice by lightning twice in Vietnam as an Army Pathfinder  about 100 feet up a giant banyan tree  puting up radio antennas to tell incoming  Huey's if a
landing field was hot or not .
Good thing I always kept my hand on the wire I put  6 ft of   the antenna ground in .