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Re: EMP crashes

I get a call from one of our satelite offices complaining that "everything's gone black & won't turn on". I do the standard troubleshooting steps but nothing fixes the issue. Then there's a noise in the background that I can hear through the phone & ask "Was that thunder?"

The caller says "Yeah. There's a massive storm going on. We even had a lightning strike a car in the carpark".

O.O? O.O! Stop trying to turn electronics on in a T&L storm you twit! Unplug everything from the mains so it doesn't die when the power comes back on!

"Is that what those ghastly yellowish light panels glowing in the ceiling mean, that we've lost power?"

ARGH! You fekkin muppet. Please step outside & hold up a cast iron rod, hug a flag pole, or climb a power tower...

*HeadDeskHeadDeskHeadDesk*

On the plus side I wasn't required to go out to the site to further troubleshoot the issue. Unfortunately I had to go out once the storm was over & fix all the stuff that had fried. UPS? What's one of those Guvna?

*HEADDESKHEADDESKHEADDESK*

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