I work in a modular building with hundreds of lab based PC's all around me. Bad storms are FUN. The walls don't filter out ANY of the thunder at all...
This one is really funny:
http://www.rockandrollconfidential.com/hall/hall_detail.php?dd_keyid=422
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DollyRocker
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1281138/posts?page=184#171
I didn't realize it for about a month after I moved here, but we are in an almost constant state of "brown-out" and as a result, I have surge protectors on everything in the house, including lamps.
I still have to find a "lamp kit" to rebuild the lamp that got fried before I wised up to the "power surges"...I would like to do it before I leave...