Originally Posted by sparkys_mom
I have just acquired the Janome Horizon - computer boards and all. My question - aside from using a surge protector - do you use any other precautions for your machines? Would you continue to sew through a thunderstorm? Just wondering.
Please, everyone, stay away from electrical appliances during a thunderstorm. A week ago, lightning struck my dishwasher and I was 10 feet away from it! It sounded like a bomb going off and I could see the fire from the element around the dishwasher where it fits into the cabinet. It nearly scared me to death. I threw water in the dishwasher, the element melted. It tripped the breaker and the same strike hit the neighbors' box up on the pole and knocked all their power out. I've lived here 21 years and that DW is 21 years old, and this is the first time and I hope the last that lightning strikes in my home. I was standing in front of that dishwasher a few minutes before it hit.
Lightning is DANGEROUS!! Don't ever take a chance!