Lightning is Powerful

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      Lightning is Powerful

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      That was a nice storm we had over the weekend. Here is some damage we ran into today. A lightning strike came in over the cable internet coax connection and fried the firewall, part of a switch, a phone and a few network cards. It looked like the electricity arced from the network card to the USB header pins on the motherboard on its way to ground via the power supply case. Some of the USB header pins are melted.  Scroll through the four photos above.

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