lightening does strike twice in the same spot

[redrider90]

Twice in the past 4 weeks my house has been struck by lightening. The first time I lost my modem and wireless router.
Last night I lost the modem, wireless router and all cordless phones.
The first time it came in through the electrical line and last night in came in through the DSL/phone line.
Last Wed we had 2 1/2" of rain in 90 minutes.
What's next? 

[Idontwantapickle]

What's next? 

I'd think you buying some type of protection for that.
Hunter

[oldbike54]

 Locusts

 Dusty

[acogoff]

     Twice! Wow! May be a sign that you should buy a powerball ticket. I had ball lightning in my kitchen once and that was enough. It was blue color. Blew me across the room. Burned out two tvs and a light fixture that contained a little circuit board. The cheap strip protector must have did it's job as no computer gizmos burned out.

[ITSec]

Twice in the past 4 weeks my house has been struck by lightening.

What's next? 

Well, the conductivity hasn't changed, so the shortest route for the charge to follow is still the same. 

[Arizona Wayne]

Do you live on top of a hill/mtn.?

[rodekyll]

I was told that lightening doesn't strike twice in the same place because after it strikes in the same place the first time that place usually isn't there anymore.

[chuck peterson]

I believe there is a hilarious Mark Twain story about that...salesman convinced him he needed a slew of lightening rods to protect the house...couldn't live there anymore cuz it got hit so much

[Arizona Wayne]

I was told that lightening doesn't strike twice in the same place because after it strikes in the same place the first time that place usually isn't there anymore.

There are some people who have been struck by lightening 3 or 4 times and still are alive.  My wife Judy was struck by lightning  on the back of our Convert. in` 01 on Hwy 50  just east of Fallon, Nevada.     Turns out it was a good thing she had a full coverage helmet on.   

[savagehenry]

Father in law has been dropped by lightning, twice. First time was on a golf course, all four guys reported hair raising on them before they all picked themselves off the ground along with another foursome nearby. Second time he was standing in the doorway to the family office. He had just said "Boy, look at that lightning," when the next crack knocked him on his ass. He was with my mother in law and two others, she was in the middle of telling him to get out of the doorway and close the, "BANG!"
He walked away both times and is still kicking years later.
Then again, I guess it really didn't strike in the same place twice. Just the same guy, twice, in different places.

[rocker59]

Since your house didn't burn down, I suppose you actually had a nearby strike that came into the house through the lines...

[Sasquatch Jim]

people who get struck by lightening have magnetic personalities.

[Orange Guzzi]

I have been struck indirectly 3 times.  Not a pretty picture.

My home has been struck by lightening.  I had wires in the walls burnt in two.  Wires on screw terminals burnt loose, light bulbs blown, t.v.'s, refrigerator ruined, outside a.c. unit, wire terminal in breaker panel burnt.  I insisted that the insurance company pay to have an electrician do a 100% inspection on my home.  The adjuster was reluctant to do so until I ask for a document from them stating that they would not cancel my policy in the future and that they would except all liabilities for future problems.  Such as appliance failure.  He finally agreed.  That is when the electrical contractor started finding light switches and wall sockets that had burnt loose wires. 

My hit came from the lightening hitting the neighbors chain link fence, feeding thru the copper ground rod and into the panel box.  The neighbors house had extensive electrical damage also. 

[Arizona Wayne]

Sometimes you get struck by lightening via the ground you stand on.    Some of theses cases sound like that.

I had a customer in Vancouver, Wa. whose big oak tree near his house got hit by lightning while he was watching TV in the house.  It split the tree in half, pulled(nails) lap siding off his LR outside wall and blew his TV up while he was watching it.    He didn't get hurt.

[cruzziguzzi]

My ol' man had a regular running billing with the 'surance man over our chimney getting the bejeepers whacked out of it nearly every year. At least one year it was hit twice in the same storm.

Of course, I'm of the ilk that lightning is at least as likely to hit the same place twice as it is to hit anywhere else.


Todd.

[charlie b]

Or you could go up to the Langmuir Lab and see how they get lightning to strike exactly where they want it :)  Rockets and wires and some interesting grounding setups.  I was working for NMTech at the time.  Don't know if they give tours.

[ITSec]

Or you could go up to the Langmuir Lab and see how they get lightning to strike exactly where they want it :)  Rockets and wires and some interesting grounding setups.  I was working for NMTech at the time.  Don't know if they give tours.

I think they do - but I've never heard of anyone going twice! 

[Stevie88]

Twice in the past 4 weeks my house has been struck by lightening. The first time I lost my modem and wireless router.
Last night I lost the modem, wireless router and all cordless phones.
The first time it came in through the electrical line and last night in came in through the DSL/phone line.
Last Wed we had 2 1/2" of rain in 90 minutes.
What's next? 

What a revolting development.

[rboe]

There is a beast called a Super Bolt that can reach anywhere that man has been/built (save the Moon). The Russians lost an underground depot to one. We lost a depot to one in the Pacific during WWII. Luckily they are fairly rare.

[redrider90]

Do you live on top of a hill/mtn.?

No I live just above the flood plain on a steep hillside overlooking a large stream that is called the Eno River. I am deep in the woods surrounded by trees a few hundred acres of trees.  Years ago when I got struck by lightening my neighbor called and told me his 220 Volt line (not plugged in at the time) which ran down to his pump in the river and had been buried was now sticking out of the ground about 6 feet in the air. It pulled the line up for about 20 feet from his house and it was the same bolt that hit us. He is about 200 yards through the woods from us.
We also have had 2 tornados hit with a 1/4 mile of our houses. One went through my front yard one week before my wife and I were to be married in that very spot! Go figure.