kewlkeed
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Knowlton, QC
| reply to Inssomniak
Re: Who runs around after storms to fix customers?
We had a hell of a storm here the other night, only two actual equipment fatalities. One was a direct strike to a tree that was 2 feet from our radio, the radio oddly enough survived (Ubnt PS2) but the CAT5 cable was toasted, the switch and PoE were also blown out. The home owners submersible water pump controller system blew out so bad it almost blew off the wall. Our CAT runs underground next to the piping for the pump, and the well is also directly next to the tree. The tree itself that got hit was pretty much split and burned from the hit.
The other outage was a PS5 unit that blew out that was close to a lake and there was a direct strike on the lake no more than 200 feet from the shore, so that probably explains that one. It also blew out the PoE, the router, and the router's power supply.
Everything else that's tower mounted just kept right on humming even with some direct strikes, I spent most of the storm shooting pictures of the hits. Wish I caught some of the tower strikes because they were amazing, but I was in the car rushing home to get the camera to shoot the rest lol. Timing timing timing.
(I don't carry a 1D around in my truck like someone I know *COUGHSPLITPAIRCOUGH*)
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