spooky coincidence or disk killer virus?

[Tom Horsley]

On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 17:44:23 -0700
"Russell Miller" <duskglow at gmail.com> wrote:

> If lightning strikes close enough it doesn't matter if it's unplugged,
> lightning causes an EMP which could fry stuff.  Has to be really close
> though,. and you'd know it.

For a little while, this was one of those flash-boom varieties with
no time delay between flash and boom, so some of them were indeed
pretty close.