Do you turn off your computer in a storm?  

Yeah, I unplug mine from the wall too...You know, I have on just about every occasion forgotten to unplug my phone from the wall - it's a cordless but the base still needs to be plugged to the wall...thanks for reminding me that i should do that next time I know I don't have to worry about other cords to my computer as I run a wireless internet connection

Yes, its always wise to disconnect your phone line when its storming, we didn't used to, but the last bad storm we had, we turned everything else off but the phone and I guess the lightening went through that and hit our satellite box so we ended having to get a new box and had to re-do some of the phone wiring. Its also wise to unplug your computer, we have ours on a surge protector but it still got hit and we ended up buying a new power cord for it, it can get expensive if your not careful about these things.

Wow, this is the first time I heard about phones being disconnected during a storm. How bad should the storm be before deciding to turn it off? I have always heard of turning the computer off during a bad storm but never the phonelines.

I think it's a good idea to turn off our phone during storms because we are using PABX and I think the electronics on that stuff would be destroyed should electric currents truly run through phonelines.

That's why I normally turn off my computer in a storm...although we had a storm yesterday, it wasn't that bad so I left my computer on.

That's fair enough...here in Australia, we are prone to get violent storms with lots of thunder & lightning so that's why I turn off my computer.

My friend had the same thing hapen with her computer & I think that's why I turn mine off moreso now.

Hey Thea, it's virtually the same here in Australia in the summer - well where I am anyway, we get storms just about every afternoon in the summer.

Me too - the storm kept hanging around or it was a few storms over the 3 hours but no damage in my area but in Brisbane which is about a 90 min drive south got hail & some trees fell over - it was on the news!!

There was lots of lightning last night & because the thunder was happening almost at the same time, I turned off my computer coz the storm was overhead - I just didn't want to rick having my computer blow up.

I am like you alex2hl!
I have RARELY turned off my computer.
I am always working on something, and the lightening looks like it is in the distance. I have had it restart too,lightening isn't so bad here like it was on the NE Colo plains.Mostly thunder and rain here. Oh,Yeah,and TORNADOS!!!
One night this summer we had a bad storm, the sky looked green and dark,I did turn it off then ..and as it happened a tornado hit 6 blocks away!!

IN NE Colo where I lived before ; we would go to the door to watch "God's fireworks" I would tell the children.We would look out the glass doors at the dry lightening and lightening shows that happened many times each summer.Very beautiful(unless you were hit)!
I DID turn the computers off when we lived there and lightening started.

Where I am in Australia, the storms can get that violent in summer that the power quite often goes out - it hasn't happened in a while where I live but I think we're in for a hot summer which means BAD storms

I have never found a good surge protector - that's why I turn off my computer duing a storm.

I brought my serge protector at wal mart when I brought my second computer I paid I think 35 dollars for it. I never turn off my computers they run constantly. Never had a problem with either of them.

I try to hang on for as long as I can too but last night, the storm was too close for my liking...did you get it bad down there? I know the Gold Coast gets the storms bad there - I was caught in many of them on the bus on the way home lol...
Where did you get your surge protector from? I haven't found a good one yet but yours sounds good & seeing as we're in the same state, I should have the same shop here on the Sunshine Coast to get one.

I was away for the weekend in Nanango, which is an hour inland from the Sunshine Coast. It did not rain out there and it looked as though it has not for a long time! It was really dry!

The surge protector we inherited with our business so I am not sure where it came from. The sticker on it says Upsonic Power 1800 634 307.

when it comes to storm, it made me want to hide and want to hear nothing. Im really afraid of thunder and lightning. I turn my pc off. As my grandma says, storm will hit the house and might destroy something. We once experienced it, we were watching tv while there is a storm and the lightning suddenly hit the antenna of our tv, and poof! cant turn on the tv anymore. we tried consulting repairman, but repairing it is expensive. we'd rather buy a new one with the same cost. storm is really scary o.o

Wow, that would have been a scary thing to happen. Thankfully that has never happened to me and we get lots of thunder storms here, particularly right now at this time of year!

Thanks for the BR my friend! This is an old one!