I invested in a whole home surge protector. I am not sure if they would take care of everything but it might be worth considering. The phone lines are particularly susceptible in you are still using a landline.
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Mitchell-DIY-Guy
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I've put these in service panels before. Installed three of them. You don't know if they work until you've had a lightning strike.
A direct strike is hard to protect against.
We get a lot of lightning on the Gulf coast. Occasionally I find pipe that’s been damaged by lightning.
My uncles house got struck while under construction and he had to have all the wiring replaced.
We get a lot of lightning on the Gulf coast. Occasionally I find pipe that’s been damaged by lightning.
My uncles house got struck while under construction and he had to have all the wiring replaced.
Can you see me waving? You are 10 minutes from me! In fact, I lived in La Verne for 31 years.
Did you fill your pockets with water to sell to us locals?
Did you fill your pockets with water to sell to us locals?
Think I have you all beat!? 15 years old, sitting on a cast iron radiator talking on the phone (for those of you who remember landlines!), lightening hit the side of the house, picked me up and threw me 10 feet across the kitchen on to the breakfast table. Blew half of the outlets right out of the walls!
So that’s what’s wrong with you ?
HAHAH my wife is in finance and started a job for a company right on Arrow Highway. She'll need to be out here once a 'Q or so - I came for moral support this time.
My 8yr old boy just came in the house saying a kid up the street called him a girls private parts name.That and a whole boat load of family issues
I asked , “ well are you one ?”
He said No and ran back out the door.
That’s what my life’s like. Ridiculous
I'd head to Newport Beach, go onto Balboa Island, take the car ferry to the other side, have a nice lunch at Hooters, Drive up Highway 1 (PCH), then jump on the 605 freeway to head home. A great 4 hour jaunt.
You had me at Hooters!!! Leaving in 30 mins!
Someone on the houserepairtalk forums said that my landline issue is on the phone company's side and that the phone company needs to "bundle" the wires or something. I don't quite understand it. Whole house surge protector won't protect the phoneline because it doesn't connect (as far as I know) to the house's power at all. It is powered from the phone company's end from a wires connecting to multiple junction boxes along the way, goes underground to a box on the side of my house. Then I have one line going from the box, runs under the house, up through the floor into the master bedroom, and extends a few feet to hang down from over the top of a wall lamp and has a jack. That line and the jack are fine but somehow the one between the jack and the phone fried. But the phone was plugged in to a surge protector and nothing else plugged in to that surge protector got damaged.
It never used to happen before but it's been happening the past several years. That's the second phone within at least 2 years that got blown by thunderstorms.
Hamberg, that must have been scary. I'm glad you were ok.
Mention of Hooters reminds me of a late friend named Rufus. He used to joke about how he wanted to go to this one town because there was a Hooters there. He would say it to tick his wife off. When he was on his death bed & unresponsive, we were sitting around him just waiting for the inevitable and were just talking about random stuff. Someone mentioned Hooters and he managed to halfway laugh so we knew he heard us. It was the last time he had any sort of response. His daughter had said that if they took him to Hooters they'd never get him to leave. LOL.
Another thing I thought of was comic book writer Chuck Dixon telling me about how he once saw an Amish man walk into a public restroom wearing his traditional Amish clothes and come out wearing jeans and a Hooters T-Shirt. (I'd mentioned to him that I saw an Amish man in an electronics store buying batteries).
I totally digressed. LOL.
Twowaxhack, I like how you handled the situation. I'm afraid I'm not a good influence on kids. My friend's gf's nephew was talking about some punk putting his hand in his pocket and pulling out a knife (cops were made aware). So I told him to put his hand in his pocket like he was going to pull out a knife and then pull out his hand and extend his middle finger. I demonstrated it and he started practicing it.
Havasu, except for the driving part, that sounds nice. I've never been to a Hooters. I hear they have good wings. Saying something about stopping in that one town and getting wings was code for Hooters to Rufus. He'd always get very amused by that.
My brother needed gas in the CRV & bc of the situation with his bank, doesn't have $ for gas so I was going with him. Also needed to get stuff at Walmart. Hopped in the truck, drove down the road, halfway down realized we had the wrong vehicle. Got to the end, turned around, and drove back. Grabbed a freezer bag (since the CRV doesn't have a cooler), hopped in, and headed out again. Got our groceries and filled up on gas. My brother pumped the gas so I didn't see the price.
Napped and woke up around 3am to strange sounds. Found my cat Bethesda trying to do chinups from my wall-mount monitor stand and trying to grab the monitor from the back. She hooked her paw around the front from the back while her back legs were flailing. I had to grab the monitor and try to push her off but she wouldn't let go so I had to grab her by the scruff of the neck and yank her off. She protested. Then I gave her some flying lessons. She landed on something soft though. I have to keep a pillow under my monitor when I'm not in the room in case they knock this one down.
It never used to happen before but it's been happening the past several years. That's the second phone within at least 2 years that got blown by thunderstorms.
Hamberg, that must have been scary. I'm glad you were ok.
Mention of Hooters reminds me of a late friend named Rufus. He used to joke about how he wanted to go to this one town because there was a Hooters there. He would say it to tick his wife off. When he was on his death bed & unresponsive, we were sitting around him just waiting for the inevitable and were just talking about random stuff. Someone mentioned Hooters and he managed to halfway laugh so we knew he heard us. It was the last time he had any sort of response. His daughter had said that if they took him to Hooters they'd never get him to leave. LOL.
Another thing I thought of was comic book writer Chuck Dixon telling me about how he once saw an Amish man walk into a public restroom wearing his traditional Amish clothes and come out wearing jeans and a Hooters T-Shirt. (I'd mentioned to him that I saw an Amish man in an electronics store buying batteries).
I totally digressed. LOL.
Twowaxhack, I like how you handled the situation. I'm afraid I'm not a good influence on kids. My friend's gf's nephew was talking about some punk putting his hand in his pocket and pulling out a knife (cops were made aware). So I told him to put his hand in his pocket like he was going to pull out a knife and then pull out his hand and extend his middle finger. I demonstrated it and he started practicing it.
Havasu, except for the driving part, that sounds nice. I've never been to a Hooters. I hear they have good wings. Saying something about stopping in that one town and getting wings was code for Hooters to Rufus. He'd always get very amused by that.
My brother needed gas in the CRV & bc of the situation with his bank, doesn't have $ for gas so I was going with him. Also needed to get stuff at Walmart. Hopped in the truck, drove down the road, halfway down realized we had the wrong vehicle. Got to the end, turned around, and drove back. Grabbed a freezer bag (since the CRV doesn't have a cooler), hopped in, and headed out again. Got our groceries and filled up on gas. My brother pumped the gas so I didn't see the price.
Napped and woke up around 3am to strange sounds. Found my cat Bethesda trying to do chinups from my wall-mount monitor stand and trying to grab the monitor from the back. She hooked her paw around the front from the back while her back legs were flailing. I had to grab the monitor and try to push her off but she wouldn't let go so I had to grab her by the scruff of the neck and yank her off. She protested. Then I gave her some flying lessons. She landed on something soft though. I have to keep a pillow under my monitor when I'm not in the room in case they knock this one down.
Their Three Mile Island wing sauce is the best!
When I was young, dumb and full of (you-know-what), I flew four of my favorite Hooter's waitresses to L.A. and spent a weekend with them in Newport Beach. Weirdest weekend of my entire life!
(I have been to the southern-most Hooters in the world, now closed, in Sydney, AU, and the northern-most in Anchorage. The one in Sydney closed after only six month. I guess the men, or the women, didn't like shorts and owl eyes!)
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Mitchell-DIY-Guy
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So, going to tell him that “my Zelle is locked” due to a treasury hold. Will have to go go into my bank this morning to sort it out.
Never been to Sydney but have been to the one in Anchorage!
Their halibut bites were great as were the wings. Did you ever make it to "The Great Alaskan Bush Company"?
