[Shotimes] OT thats a lot of lightning

[Shylo McKinsey]

Second that. Mine'll give me about 5 minutes...

Shylo McKinsey

--- Carl Prochilo <gr8sho@prochilo.myserver.org>
wrote:
> Invest in a good UPS for your computer.  Lightning
> storms are a way of
> life down here in FL and we are into that time of
> year where these occur
> on a daily afternoon basis.  The normal pattern
> seems to be that the
> electricity will get whacked for seconds or in some
> cases minutes, but the
> broadband connection stays up.  Go figure.  BTW, I
> usually keep my
> networking equipment on a separate UPS from the user
> computers or server.
> 
> : )
> -- 
> Cheers,
> Carl Prochilo
> 92 Ultra Red Crimson
> 
> On Mon, July 5, 2004 10:34 pm, Donald Mallinson
> said:
> > At 9:30pm central time, standing on my porch in
> central
> > Illinois (Peoria) I can see a line of storms
> coming that is
> > over the Iowa/Illinois border or maybe a little
> farthur
> > east.  Those of you in that area have already seen
> it, but
> > from here, it is a VERY tall cloud bank that is
> behind
> > totally clear skies.  Since it is night, we should
> not be
> > able to see the cloud, but it is very bright
> because there
> > is what appears to be constant lightning in the
> clouds!  Not
> > just a rapid flash, but a lack of any time between
> flashes,
> > or more properly many flashes of lightning all at
> the same
> > time, ongoing.
> >
> > I will be shutting down everything electronic in
> the house
> > for a while.  There are severe storm warnings and
> tornado
> > warnings coming.
> >
> > Hope everyone is safe.
> >
> > Don Mallinson
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