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03-19-2015, 12:49 PM

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HouseDragon

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I should add that while I leave my machine plugged into a surge protector at all times, I unplug the surge protector during electric storms or if we leave the house during rainy days.

We had lightening strike one of our coconut trees several years ago: it blasted dirty water through the bathroom window, punched a hole through the metal drain spout, punched a hole in the neighbour's concrete driveway, and ~most scary~ traveled across the wet ground all the way to the neighbour's outside water faucet and blasted the pipe into two pieces. The next morning the neighbour across the street (a plumber) saw the gushing water from the broken pipe and came over to cap it off.

We were just darn lucky the strike didn't travel inside the house along the electrical wiring!

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