My parent's house was affected by a "near hit" lightning strike earlier this year. Some of you may remember that my dad had a professionally-installed (read: ueber-overpriced) home theater including all the bells and whistles like several incredibly spendy surge protectors...

Turns out they did him no good, just as Alan/Tom suggested. The lightning totally ignored his surge protectors and fried a number of his expensive components. Bad news... lost the equipment, good news, insurance covered it and he was able to upgrade to more current gear. ;\)

Jason

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