Back in the 60’s we had a lightening strike in our back yard. It blew out all the electrics in the house, and they were smoking.
The black, dial AT&T phone worked perfectly; we used it to call for help.
Several years ago, a squirrel shorted the high tension lines to the low voltage lines on the power pole behind my over 90 year old mom's house. The resulting power surge took out over $6,000 of her electronics including her big screen TV, her Satellite TV box with its recorder, the big screen TV in her bedroom, her laser printer, a microwave oven, her wireless phone base stations, a plug-in wall clock, the cable modem, her clock radio/alarm clock, her stereo, her refrigerator, the freezer in the garage, the clothes washer (the 220 volt dryer took the surge OK), and several fluorescent fixtures that were turned on. . . as well as fried some of the circuit breakers. Her Apple iMac was on, and kept on working through the whole thing! Didn't even flicker. It just lost connection to the internet when the modem was fried.
Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) ruled it, and I quote, "an act of God, by squirrel."
I kid you not. . . and refused to pay for any of the damages, even though there was negligence in how close their high tension lines were placed to their low voltage 120 v. lines that allowed the squirrel to bridge between them.
But her iMac kept on ticking. . . on the other hend, her college student caregiver's PC laptop, which unfortunately was plugged, in was cooked.
PG&E wouldn't pay, but her homeowner's insurance covered all of it with replacement value coverage. Damn, I wish the iMac had been zapped too. Could a got a brand new, up-to-date iMac for her.