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08-11-2020, 10:27 AM
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 Wait a sec, lets NOT go there!  Anyway, thunderstorms, tornadoes, etc... Which leads to another strange tale, my parents place has ( still does ) a primitive intercom system in it, all transistorized, with the electronics being in the main unit, and the remotes being nothing but a speaker, switches and pots. One night there was a rather bad thunderstorm, as I was trying to sleep, ( or as I was almost asleep), there was a deafeningly loud KOBOOM and bright flash outside the widow, ( my window and my parents faced front), it was soon found out that struck the oak tree out front. It felt like I jumped 3 feet above my bed when it hit... It was quickly seen that not only was the tree hit, but the bolt had forked, and blasted through the roof and hit some metal molding that ran between the wood boards above the awning over the entryway and found it's way to a light fixture, all the edges were burned. Afterward, it was found that the intercom control unit had been burned out and had to be replaced, but after it was, the 2 forward facing remote units still did not work right, this made no sense, for there was no semiconductors in them, so how could they be affected? After they too were replaced and the entire system working again, it was soon discovered what happened to the remote units, the strike had somehow disrupted the permanent magnets in the speakers leaving them too weak to be of use anymore. Something to this day that still boggles the mind. Shortly after that happened, my parents had lightning rods added to the house, and there was never a problem with strikes again.
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