Well, we here have a lot of rocks you can have:)
EEEYYOWWW!
About half an hour ago we took a lightning hit that knocked out our nice new LED lighting fixture in the kitchen. I was sitting right at the kitchen table doing a minor (glue) job (long story) and POW! Well, actually “POP!” with a simultaneous flash through the window and then (maybe a second later) a big “BAM” that shook the house. The “POP” came right from said light and it immediately went out.
So, I spent 20 minutes or so checking everything else: Computers, the TV, etc. That kitchen light seems to be the only damage, tho’ I’m “monitoring” at least another hour just in case a spark could have jumped somewhere in the attic or in a wall. Wifey went back to sleep. Luckily, most stuff on that circuit was off. (Most of it is lighting, but, wifey’s computer she uses for work stuff, some playing of movies, etc., is on that circuit too. It fired up fine, as seems to everything else...)
I’ll troubleshoot further, later this morning. A good question will be whether the LED “disc” is replaceable and available, and whether the LEDS are dead or just the driver circuit (and is the latter available.)
I’m bummed about this light - finally we got a kitchen ceiling light with just the right color (switchable, and great at 4000k) and plenty of brightness for my old eyes. It was a bit pricey, but, the kitchen is one place ya’ really want good light. DRAT.
A local TV station’s radar has a lightning tracker — it showed the lightning strike east of us, right on our road, with the actual storm still a few miles to our west: Apparently the bolt passed right over us and hit about 2/3 mile down the road, on “our” line, or, it induced a voltage surge on our line.
Our east yard already has at least an inch of standing water, and all my “round 1” rainwater collection containers are already full. Another batch of storms arrives in an hour or so. Hopefully less the lightning hits on us...