On Monday, 5 April 2021 at 16:16:30 UTC+1, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
On another group, I heard about a lightning strike to a house, via the TV
aerial. Aerial went to a DA. Seemed it burnt out all the house wiring and
every appliance in it. Requiring the owners to move out for months while
it was all sorted. Seems it also travelled to other houses in the street
too via the mains and caused much damage there too. Was rather surprised
to read this. I've seen a TV destroyed - but not so much extra damage.

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A friend had a similar lightning strike but not sure if it was via the TV aerial
which was damaged the connector was blown off and the pin ended up about 3ft away
and it was hot so burnt the carpet.
About 6 or so other peolpe were affected but it seems that the bolt hit a virgin media it a cable box
in the street. Most of the TiVo went faulty my friends the HDHI lead soldered itself into the cable box.
The lightning took out their TV , DVD player, cable box and seemed to have damaged the bluetooth in their iMac
as it was no longer found , but why it didn;t do the iMac too I don't know

I have some pictures I took of the damaged equipment somewhere , I'll try to find them tonight if I remmeber