I get rebooted in yesterday’s  lightning flash

Yesterday I arrived home just as it began to pour rain and I was happy for a garage to drive into.  As I looked into the back yard, a sudden flash of lightning and thunder startled me.  The lightning was so bright that it whited out the entire backyard. That let me know it hit close.  I found my internet, cable and land line phone lines were down. Brighthouse arrived 36 hours later and he first wanted to find the amplifier that sent a signal to his equipment, which should be, he said, a cable connection that is plugged into an electrical outlet. We looked at every outlet in the house and couldn’t find one. Then at the cable box outside he found a splitter looking thing  that he says is typically attached to an amplifier, and that it had gone bad.  It looked, he said, as though a technician prior to him didn’t have the correct device on his truck when he came out and replaced it using this one, then the tech didn’t alert the office that it needed to be swapped out.  It was coincidence that it went bad right after the lightning strike and that was the cause of my internet, cable and phone going down.  Continue reading →