I've had more of a problem from power outages being restored than from storms. The worst outage was due to someone running their vehicle into the power pole somewhere down the main road. Major surge when the power came back on several hours later. Got an error message on my almost brand new electric range. Stove top works fine but haven't figured out how to reset digital display in order to use oven. Tech support was less than helpful - just told me what the error code meant.