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Joe Tilley · 07-09-2003, 11:37 AM

Thanks for the response Chu. Like you obviously heard we have had tons of rain here, in fact there were a few houses on my street that was a foot or two under water. But with all that rain has come lots of lightning & thats when I got hit.

I didn't think anything was wrong afterwords as everything seams to be fine, but I wonted to be sure I didn't need to worry much should another good storm come through.
I do have one other question if anyone could help. I use a tower mounted antenna for TV. It is grounded at the cable before it comes into the house, & the tower it's self is grounded. But every time it storms I find myself unhooking it from my tv, or rather my power center as it passes through it before the tv. Is this being over cautious or is it a good idea? We get a good amount of lightning in my area so thats my main reason for doing it, I just didn't know how pron a tower is to taking a hit.

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Joe Tilley Join Date: Jan 2002 Local Time: 02:06 PM Local Date: 12-01-2008 Posts: 722	Thanks for the response Chu. Like you obviously heard we have had tons of rain here, in fact there were a few houses on my street that was a foot or two under water. But with all that rain has come lots of lightning & thats when I got hit. I didn't think anything was wrong afterwords as everything seams to be fine, but I wonted to be sure I didn't need to worry much should another good storm come through. I do have one other question if anyone could help. I use a tower mounted antenna for TV. It is grounded at the cable before it comes into the house, & the tower it's self is grounded. But every time it storms I find myself unhooking it from my tv, or rather my power center as it passes through it before the tv. Is this being over cautious or is it a good idea? We get a good amount of lightning in my area so thats my main reason for doing it, I just didn't know how pron a tower is to taking a hit.