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So, we had a few nasty thunderstorms recently. Well 3 days ago me and my dad where sitting on the couch debating politics when our house is struc by lightening. The lights went crazy and it was really loud when it struck. I nearly peed my pants and jumped up from the couch and ran out onto the front porch :3. Well everything is on surge protectors except for one thing.... the magical internet box( the router) so it got fried and I was without internet for like 3 days, it was terrible! Lolz, it wasnt that bad and my dad took it worse than I did, which is why it was only 3 days untill we got a new one.
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I think you mean lightning.
Lightening is when you're reducing the load.
If it makes you feel better, one customer of mine lost about a thousand dollars in equipment because they were basically a flat building in a field - and didn't put earthing strips or a lightning rod on the building. (plus a two foot long, three inch wide strip blasted out of the roof)
Another has had their internet down for over a week.
I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.
Not much lightning here
In the two and a half years I have been in Manila, I noticed that most of the storms here don't have much lightning. I wonder why that is. Anyway...
The only time that I remember a lightning strike, or something similar striking near me was during Hurricane Irene (I think) way back in 2011, and my then-housemate and I were in our house in Maryland. A power transformer blew during the storm, affecting the entire neighborhood. But our electrical stuff weren't affected because of the breakers tripping. And besides, our house is grounded, and lightning strikes would just discharge around the house and into the ground.
If your place isn't grounded, isn't that like against the building code? Maybe you can have that checked out.
Speaking about storms and stuff, yesterday, we had to weather a typhoon. Typhoon Rammasun hit the Philippines right smack in the middle, right in Manila. It was pretty scary - the winds were lifting rooftops and knocking down billboards. At about 4am, the power was cut and Moe and I had to huddle in the dark and listen to the wind howl and the trees fall. We were safe since we were in a high place, and our house was pretty well built. But we didn't feel that at the time. It was scary, let me tell you.
But the !?%#¥£€*%!?!!! typhoon eventually left, and the people here have to pick up the pieces. Again. Americans have been hit by real bad storms and hurricanes. But the people here get hit by real bad ones like four times a year... It makes me think how lucky we are, yet again.
Definitely, Rammasun wasn't as bad as Haiyan, the one that hit them last year, which was the most powerful typhoon/hurricane ever recorded to make landfall but I guess this felt worse to us since we're here where it landed. Real scary.
And, adding insult to injury - there's another one coming. Hope this one misses...
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irene
I was in maryland for hurricane irene as well. The entire neighbor hood was oout playing in the storm surge that flooded the streets, we lived on the coast. And I hope you are alright and far away from manilla bay, its the 3rd dirtiest water on earth!
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Grounding your electrical is
Grounding your electrical is a bit different from grounding the building. All buildings have grounded electrical (that's the bottom plug of the face) nowadays. However, to ground the _building_ requires a lightning rod and/or earthing strips. Otherwise, the entire building can draw electricity and do what this one did.
I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.
I know the feeling
I had a house with lightening rods on the roof and we would get hit 3 to 5 times a summer. The funny thing is when I replaced the roof after so many tile got damaged and the rods where removed we didn't get hit not once . You really need to wonder why the former owner put them up in the first place ? maybe he liked to be scared out of 10 years growth or something like that