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RUSH: So I just took a look out the north windows of the EIB Southern Command, because I checked the weather radar before I did that, and no rain here, but the sky is pretty dark up there in the north, and I\u2019ll sitting there, and I\u2019m looking at bolts of lightning. Now, I have not mentioned this because I\u2019m not a whiner and a moaner, and I\u2019m not whining and moaning now. But Monday night of this week, about seven o\u2019clock, one of the biggest boomers that I can recall sitting through went through the neighborhood where I live. There were lightning bolts that I swear I could see out the window, and the thunder was such that even the cat\u2019s hair was standing on end. I didn\u2019t lose any power, and didn\u2019t think anything of it. It was no big deal — until I tried to leave. The gates were fried. I couldn\u2019t open it gates. So I had to do a walk-through, and I have a number of little houses on my property that I\u2019ve purchased so that I can be surrounded by friends. One of them was totally fried. Every piece of electronic equipment was fried. I\u2019ve got surge protection redundancy like you wouldn\u2019t believe, and that was fried. There must have been a direct hit on one of the poles close to this house, because the satellite dish, all the television sets, the toasters, everything, pshew! Gone. <\/p>\n

<\/a>The humidor computer was gone. Yes, the humidor computer. That\u2019s a big deal because I could lose those. If the cigars get too hot in there, there\u2019s the tobacco beetle, is what it is, and they can come to life. The larva is in it. They come to life. They bore out through the center, bore perfect holes coming out of there, and the cigars are ruined. (interruption) Can\u2019t access the Internet? Yeah, go ahead and laugh about it. I won\u2019t know if I lost any cigars for a while. It takes these things a little while to perk up. I hadn\u2019t opened the door to the humidor because the rest of the air-conditioning worked. I\u2019ve told you guys about my smoke eater that I have in my library which is thermal displacement. It works in the air handler on the second floor of the library and I have a switch underneath my desk and when hit the switch that turns it on and off. The wire from the air handler to my desk was fried! The security and the alarm system in that one house was fried, and I\u2019ve got huge surge protection in there. It was a direct hit. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s nothing you can do. There\u2019s nothing you can do to protect yourself from a direct hit. So I\u2019m in there looking out the windows here and I\u2019m seeing thighs lightning bolts and I\u2019m thinking they\u2019re hitting my house again! It was just amazing, and the rain was as hard as it can be. It was nothing unique. This was the biggest storm I\u2019ve been through in a long time. I didn\u2019t know the next day how extensive the damage was. I have a 62-inch plasma up in the gym, in the exercise room, up in the gym, that was fried. All of the remote control units, gone. I have Crestron systems. All fried. I still don\u2019t know the extent of the damage. It may have to be rewired, some of this stuff. Some of it\u2019s Ethernet, but I didn\u2019t lose anything in the main house, which was just a stroke of luck, as it turned out. I\u2019m just lucky neither of these places actually started scorching into flames, because I wouldn\u2019t have known it, because the alarm systems were fried at the same time. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: You know, in every collection of great people, such as you, there are always going to be the smart asses. ‘Dear Rush: Many years ago, way before you were born, in 1752, Ben Franklin invented a device to prevent lightning damage to homes. He called it a ‘lightning rod,\u2019 and, Rush, it works. Perhaps it\u2019s time for you to have one installed. I find it hard to believe that you did not have one. That would be the first thing I would have if I lived in Florida.\u2019 I doubt that he wants to sell me one. I thought I explained that the strike hit the power pole. It fried a transformer. I have more than lightning rods. I am well protected. The redundancy, the surge protection, I have all of this stuff. This was not a direct hit on the house. It was a direct hit on the pole that feeds to houses. I\u2019m sorry, there not a whole lot you can do when that happens, except deal with it, and then the wise acres that you have to deal with after you tell the story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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