Computers and Thunderstorms

[paints]

I always unplug my computer during a thunderstorm since it poses a risk of power surges and spikes caused by lighting strikes hitting the electrical grid. Power outages are also a problem, each time power is interrupted it's like yanking the power cord on your PC. Cutting power to your PC without properly shutting it down, can cause all sorts of things to happen...open and unsaved files can disappear and data can be corrupted. It's not uncommon for a PC to refuse to boot up after one of these incidents,requiring time consuming OS repair or re-installation to get back up and running.

I've had that happen to my desktop.  I didn't unplug it from the modem, and came back to it and found it unusable.  Wouldn't boot, and had to take it to the computer repair guy to get it up and running again. 
Lesson learned. 

[Segun15]

I never leave my computer plugged in because of that reason. Because you never know when thunder and lightening will hit

[teenangel]

I unplug my computer Everytime I'm done with it because you never know what may happen

[sdenimandlace1]

We have every thing on surge protectors here.   We turn them off when it storms, My house sits on flat  rocks so we get hit pretty often.

[Shandara09]

Glad your laptop didn't get damaged.  I have a surge protector, but I do unplug my computer if it's storming.. that wouldn't have helped when it happens all of a sudden, though.

[patti4me]

I always unplug my computer.  Last year we had a bad storm that ran in on our TV, our router and my Wii.  Had to replace the TV and router but haven't replaced the Wii.  It just knocked the sound out on the Wii so I keep using it. lol

[ktheodos]

Crazy for sure...but it does happen