Regarding this contest...

[GeorgeTH]

Originally posted by chilihost
...my house was struck by lightning and it fried out all my PCs and electrical goods, just a couple of days before heading on two weeks holiday to Panama, so now I am back and finally getting my replacement stuff!

Hi, Luke!
Sorry to hear, bloody nightmare that is... Can't even rely on a surge protector in that case. I was so wise to un-plug all my equipment last year when suddenly I had to go to Europe, and then came back and the high humidity had ruined my main computer - completely (motherboard, RAM, CPU, CD burner, video card,... only HDs survived)!
No power = no heat = best condition for moisture to destroy everything.
And despite good backups and undamaged hds it took ages to get everything back to 'usable' - 11 month later and some bits are still not installed or running properly (network being the worse - can't get it stable again).


to you and everybody else