Lightning Strikes
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Phone line connection
The cover to this phone connection was blown into another room over 5 metres away. The lightening travelled along the top phone line and did not enter the phone connections below within centimetres(3 phones were connected to the bottom outlet but remained unharmed) Isn't that amazing!!
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Here is the phone line at the other end
Thankfully we had removed the phone line from the computer! The plastic tip that was on the end of the cord has yet to be found... we wonder if it was disintegrated. Luckily there were no papers on the desk to start a fire.
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Cover of meter blown off
This photo shows the box with our Solar power wiring, fuse box etc. The top meter had it's cover blown off and of course is it no longer working... Similar meters are pictured below with their covers on. A fuse was blown in the box. The flourescent light in the office (we assume the transformer was damaged) and the switch to this light shows black singe marks.
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| 2005 was a year for storm damage for us. We have been here since 1989 and whilst we have had trees hit on our 40 Hectare (100 acres) of native bush property and the phone line has been damaged in the past.
This was the first year that our house was struck and we managed to get stuck twice - in January and then in November. This strike was on November 10th 2005. |
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Well believe it or not we were struck by hailstones bigger than golfballs only 2 days earlier.. this link will take you to some photos.
Follow this link to photos I took of a tornado earlier this year...(January) we had large hailstones and a lightening strike that took out a computer, one phone and a palm charger.
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