Where we live we have regular electrical outages due to a number of
problems. Last night, however, we had a new experience. It must have
been something like a voltage surge. it blew out a drive of mine, my
PC speaker system and screwed up our wireless home network pretty
good. All electricity to the house went off for a few seconds and
then turned back on. I guess the electric company had a backup system
of sorts that took over.

I did have so-called surge suppressor outlet strips to which our comps
were plugged in. They were useless against whatever it was that
happened. I'm amazed my battery backups for the computers are still
working. I'm thinking we need some kind of really strong voltage
control item on our comps and a few other things around here. Any
suggestions?