re: #381 Backwoods_Sleuth

That lightning strike on the utility pole?
That’s why you unplug everything in the house.

I know some people that had a custom built house stuck away in the woods, northeast of Columbus. They were both at work, kids in school when a lighting storm came through and one of the things it struck was the lonely single pole back of their property AEP put in to reach their house with a drop. The lighting went down the pole followed the drop straight into the main breaker box and caught the wall around it on fire. Since it was raining, and the house was way back in the woods, no one really saw it catch and burn. By the time it was noticed…the house was pretty much shot. All wood type house too, inside and out so burn it did.