On 2 Jul 2005 16:35:48 -0700, "Joe Analssandrini"
wrote:

Hello Dr Artaud,

You are very lucky. The damage could have been far worse. Your house
could have burned down!

As you have found out, the National Weather Service, while far better
than in the past, is not as reliable as we should like.


We generaly don't have as much worry about lightning along the
coast of Calfornia. But we do have the local power utility.

Some years back, a worker dropped a multi-KV line across the
local 110V line. It took out almost all electronics on at least one
block, as well as burning out the motors on some refrigerators and
blowing a lot of light bulbs which were not even turned on at the
time.