Hi everyone 🙂 I just wanted to share something I learned last weekend: get a surge protector for your phone lines. We came home from vacation last Saturday to find our computer, modem, and phone Jack fried. Lightning had struck it. Now our computer was on a surge protector, but the cable running into it from the phone Jack was not. So everything was killed. They fixed the phone line yesterday and we just bought a new computer today, so hopefully I will back to blogging this upcoming week. Thank goodness our renters insurance covered everything! And that at least my phone still let’s me get on the Internet. Talk to you all soon!
Emily says
July 25, 2010 at 5:52 pmWe had a similar thing happen a couple weeks ago! We’re in Bountiful, Utah. The main electrical line “burnt up”/shorted out. It fried the treadmill, the phones, the microwave, the baby monitor, the sprinkler control system, and my radio I use when I sew! Because we technically own the electrical line, but the city maintains it, we were responsible for the damages. Luckily we were able to replace/fix all our stuff for a little over $300, but it still was a nuisance doing it all for a whole week! I got us some new/additional surge protectors. They’d better do the trick. Hopefully it will never happen again!
PeaceLoveApplesauce says
July 25, 2010 at 8:56 pmOh Man.. That super sucks!
"Miss" Paige says
July 25, 2010 at 9:35 pmOh man! I am so sorry that happened! 🙁
Justine says
July 26, 2010 at 12:30 amI hope everything gets working soon!
SAMZE says
July 26, 2010 at 2:37 pmoh my goodness! thanks for the advice! i hope everything gets fixed soon. my best to you!
Swati says
July 27, 2010 at 12:43 amAck, what a pain to lose your computer – and everything in it – just like that! All the best!
Jacinta says
July 27, 2010 at 3:55 amOh how annoying!
One time we got back from holiday and my bro in law forgot to turn the power back on after fixing a power socket while we were away.DERR! ALL our food in the fridge and freezer were off… At least you have no one to blame but nature!
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