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Hi everybody! I've been off forum and not much online time for awhile because of weather conditions and air conditioner that didn't work. I don't run any electronics during storms, and don't want to risk computer overheating.
 
I can relate to your weather concerns. I used to never worry about storms until my house got struck my lightning and turned my PC into a Crispy Critter. Don't believe the BS story that power strips with surge protectors will prevent that. That's a sales pitch. I had a "state of the art" one at the time, and it got fried first. Nothing can stop the immense power of a Lightning Strike.

By the way, get yourself a pack of cool towels, which will cost about $5 on walmart.com and a 20" Window fan, $15 to $20. Get four of the cool towels wet, wring them out so they aren't dripping, tie two of them together and slip one through the fan's handle and secure it with a twist tie. Rinse and repeat so you have four wet cool towels flapping in the breeze in front of the fan. Set the fan near the air intake vent of your PC and put it on low or medium, depending of how close it is to your PC. This is a Poor Man's PC Swamp Cooler. Be sure to keep an eye of the cool towels, as they will dry relatively quickly. I live in a wide spot in the road outside Bakersfield, California called Edison. And it can get pretty hot here. Yesterday we broke a 15 day run of temps above 100°F. Today's high was 94°F. Not much better, but it beats 105°F.

I change my signature when the mood hits me, so I don't know which one you liked.
 
Axel Slingerland said:
I can relate to your weather concerns. I used to never worry about storms until my house got struck my lightning and turned my PC into a Crispy Critter. Don't believe the BS story that power strips with surge protectors will prevent that. That's a sales pitch. I had a "state of the art" one at the time, and it got fried first. Nothing can stop the immense power of a Lightning Strike.

By the way, get yourself a pack of cool towels, which will cost about $5 on walmart.com and a 20" Window fan, $15 to $20. Get four of the cool towels wet, wring them out so they aren't dripping, tie two of them together and slip one through the fan's handle and secure it with a twist tie. Rinse and repeat so you have four wet cool towels flapping in the breeze in front of the fan. Set the fan near the air intake vent of your PC and put it on low or medium, depending of how close it is to your PC. This is a Poor Man's PC Swamp Cooler. Be sure to keep an eye of the cool towels, as they will dry relatively quickly. I live in a wide spot in the road outside Bakersfield, California called Edison. And it can get pretty hot here. Yesterday we broke a 15 day run of temps above 100°F. Today's high was 94°F. Not much better, but it beats 105°F.

I change my signature when the mood hits me, so I don't know which one you liked.
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Thanks for the info and advice!

Oh, the sig is the one about old age.. I can relate!!
 
When we lived in northeastern Florida (Jacksonville), and had a circuit board go out on our big screen tv, had it replaced, and after that, we started shutting off our tv and computer when a t-storm would hit. Done the same thing when living in northern Colorado during a t-storm. Here in Henderson, NV, very few t-storms hit and, basically, never in the evening/night, so the tv stays on and so do computers.
 
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Cody Fousnaugh said:
When we lived in northeastern Florida (Jacksonville), and had a circuit board go out on our big screen tv, had it replaced, and after that, we started shutting off our tv and computer when a t-storm would hit. Done the same thing when living in northern Colorado during a t-storm. Here in Henderson, NV, very few t-storms hit and, basically, never in the evening/night, so the tv stays on and so do computers.
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Thunderstorms are becoming more and more frequent- and almost always at night.
What REALLY gets to me, though, are the warnings/watches/etc. for tornadoes.. "terrified" does not begin to say it.
 
CAS said:
Thunderstorms are becoming more and more frequent- and almost always at night.
What REALLY gets to me, though, are the warnings/watches/etc. for tornadoes.. "terrified" does not begin to say it.
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I was just reading abut that in the news, and apparently we have more tornado warnings now than we used to have simply because we have better equipment to discern when there ight be a tornado possible. The article I was reading said that we actually have fewer of the really strong tornadoes that before, so that is a good thing, and no more actual tornadoes , just that we can predict the possibility better to warn people.
 
CAS said:
Oh, the sig is the one about old age.. I can relate!!
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I like that one too. It's actually been there longer than normal for me. I usually change them every few weeks. But I'm 69 years old with a 7 month chaser, and I care less about that than I used to. I used to have a small PHP script that I could use that would randomly choose a different quote out of a list of 100 quotes. But it disappeared when we were moved here from Eureka.
 
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