On Sun, 15 Sep 2002, Wayne Johnson wrote: > I've had a lighting strike take out the wire as well... Lightning is weird. REALLY wierd. Twice since I've worked here our building at work has been struck by lightning. Both times our data network has sustained damage, but in really odd patterns. In our last incident, it fried all the cards in our phone switch, except for one. In the previous one, it fried all our ethernet switches, but not all computers. Some wouldn't power up at all, some worked fine. One had occasional issues, and one just released smoke every once in awhile. WEIRD STUFF. So yeah, if it's possible that lightning or a really big surge knocked you out, it's worth looking into. -Brian