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Nick Markowitz

Jan 1, 1970
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Had a wierd situation at a supermarket .
Power surge came in killed the FBII XL-4 ver 1 thats been there 12 years and
was on a breaker panel with surge protection built into it to protect the
comp. registers. took out a cable modem nothing else in store touched and
also failed open 2 door switches.
-- Normally switches fuse closed.
Never seen switches blown open before.
any one else ever see this.

Nick Markowitz Jr.
Owner
Markowitz Electric Protection
Private Industry Fire Investigator.
Qualified Electrical- Fire Alarm Contractor

Contributing Editor Pa. Firemans Magazine

Senior Correspondant www.1strespondernews.com
Contributor www.monyoughfire.com
www.nbfd.us
Contract Broadcast Engineer WAVL 910 AM apollo Pa.
 
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ABLE_1

Jan 1, 1970
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Never ever under estimate the power of mother nature!!!!!!!!! She will
always do the "weirdest" things.
 
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Nick Markowitz

Jan 1, 1970
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Having taken care of an AM radio station for many years now I have seen
mother nature do quite a bit of amazing stuff. still figuring this one out.
 
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Crash Gordon

Jan 1, 1970
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Yep. Had a house once where lightning blew a 4' hole in the roof, took out
almost all the electronics in the house. Wierder still is the alarm panel
did not get fried but some switches were welded shut, some blown open. The
surge followed the ufer in this house and jumped the the neighboring house's
ufer about 6 feet away and blew out his breaker box and stopped there.


| Had a wierd situation at a supermarket .
| Power surge came in killed the FBII XL-4 ver 1 thats been there 12 years
and
| was on a breaker panel with surge protection built into it to protect the
| comp. registers. took out a cable modem nothing else in store touched and
| also failed open 2 door switches.
| -- Normally switches fuse closed.
| Never seen switches blown open before.
| any one else ever see this.
|
| Nick Markowitz Jr.
| Owner
| Markowitz Electric Protection
| Private Industry Fire Investigator.
| Qualified Electrical- Fire Alarm Contractor
|
| Contributing Editor Pa. Firemans Magazine
|
| Senior Correspondant www.1strespondernews.com
| Contributor www.monyoughfire.com
| www.nbfd.us
| Contract Broadcast Engineer WAVL 910 AM apollo Pa.
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Jim

Jan 1, 1970
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Crash said:
Yep. Had a house once where lightning blew a 4' hole in the roof, took out
almost all the electronics in the house. Wierder still is the alarm panel
did not get fried but some switches were welded shut, some blown open. The
surge followed the ufer in this house and jumped the the neighboring house's
ufer about 6 feet away and blew out his breaker box and stopped there.
There's always a better story .....
Here's one:

You figure once the lightning hits the ground ..... that's it .....
right?

Lightning hits a tree by my clients house.Blows a couple of his cameras
and some breakers. Lightning hits the ground, goes through the ground
about 20 feet and into a neighbors barn. Comes up out of the ground,
kills a horse and shoots out the opposite side of the barn.

That happened 20 years ago and I'm still amazed everytime I think of
it.

Another clients house was actually hit by the lightning. Put a small
hole in the roof. However, the hit was so hard, that it actually
"twisted" the house. It was one of these contemporary houses with the
three story great room. The dry wall in the great room and a number of
other rooms had to be changed because of fissure like cracks in the
walls from ceiling corner to the opposite floor corner. And the house
had to shored up and leveled by a house moving company. He wanted me to
give him an "evaluation" of what equipment had to be replaced .... for
his insurance company. I told him to replace it all, as there was no
way to know how long any device would last, once the system was powered
up. I told him to get a public adjuster in to represent him to his
insurance company too. Of all things, in spite of all the damage and
potential damage he could experience in the future, he said he didn't
want to "cheat" his insurance company. Noble but stupid ..... I guess.
I told him .... sorry but I couldn't guarantee anything would work for
any length of time. So the idiot got another alarm company who would.
Good riddance!
 
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