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Lightning strikes - AGAIN???
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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 62707" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>We live in an area which attracts electric storms. it's because we're right out on a peninsula, shoved off east of Sydney (almost in the drink) with a clear border between the houses, and the bush. The storms just zero in on the house-covered area, with all that electricity and those electrons zinging around and we get hit, just about every time. the town, that is. A small town. Even if our house doesn't score a direct hit, a successful strike a few houses away has been known to burn out appliances in our place (blew the fuse box off the wall at the direct hit place).</p><p></p><p>We've got developers in the village. I'm blaming them - because I want to. Four months ago their digger hit the water mains down in the shopping area. It took them ages to fix it, and we couldn't get parking at the shops all that time. Last week the mains near the bridge burst and tore holes in the road. We lost our water while it was being fixed. Last night we lost our water again - I went out to explore, find out why - right over the road the water pipe had broken and because we live on a sand dune, a huge hole had formed when a cubic metre of sand was washed down the drain with Sydney's precious water.</p><p>We had a hailstorm last Friday - a huge one. Luckily nothing got broken at our place, but others weren't so lucky. A few years ago, friends had just moved into the area when a hailstorm hit, with hailstones literally the size of cricket balls. The skylight at their house was smashed and water and hail poured in, cascading down two floors to the basement while the family hid under the kitchen table. Their cars were both safely in the garage - only the garage got the roof smashed in by the hail and tiles and timber plus hail smashed onto both cars - written off. Hey, welcome to the village.</p><p></p><p>Bad things just happen sometimes. Surviving the bad things - now that's cool.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 62707, member: 1991"] We live in an area which attracts electric storms. it's because we're right out on a peninsula, shoved off east of Sydney (almost in the drink) with a clear border between the houses, and the bush. The storms just zero in on the house-covered area, with all that electricity and those electrons zinging around and we get hit, just about every time. the town, that is. A small town. Even if our house doesn't score a direct hit, a successful strike a few houses away has been known to burn out appliances in our place (blew the fuse box off the wall at the direct hit place). We've got developers in the village. I'm blaming them - because I want to. Four months ago their digger hit the water mains down in the shopping area. It took them ages to fix it, and we couldn't get parking at the shops all that time. Last week the mains near the bridge burst and tore holes in the road. We lost our water while it was being fixed. Last night we lost our water again - I went out to explore, find out why - right over the road the water pipe had broken and because we live on a sand dune, a huge hole had formed when a cubic metre of sand was washed down the drain with Sydney's precious water. We had a hailstorm last Friday - a huge one. Luckily nothing got broken at our place, but others weren't so lucky. A few years ago, friends had just moved into the area when a hailstorm hit, with hailstones literally the size of cricket balls. The skylight at their house was smashed and water and hail poured in, cascading down two floors to the basement while the family hid under the kitchen table. Their cars were both safely in the garage - only the garage got the roof smashed in by the hail and tiles and timber plus hail smashed onto both cars - written off. Hey, welcome to the village. Bad things just happen sometimes. Surviving the bad things - now that's cool. Marg [/QUOTE]
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