{"id":1944,"date":"2011-02-15T05:00:01","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/?p=1944"},"modified":"2011-02-13T10:53:13","modified_gmt":"2011-02-13T15:53:13","slug":"lightning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/lightning\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/lightning-bolt.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2248\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 5px;\" title=\"lightning bolt\" src=\"http:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/lightning-bolt-300x225.png\" alt=\"lightning bolt\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/lightning-bolt-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/lightning-bolt.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A few weeks ago, during the winter storm blast, I heard a report that some of the blizzards were accompanied by\u00a0 thunder and lighting. It&#8217;s rare, but sometimes does occur.<\/p>\n<p>This served as a reminder as we move into the spring and summer months here in the northern hemisphere.\u00a0 Thunderstorm season will soon be upon us.<\/p>\n<p>Remember, when a  severe thunder and lighting storm rolls through, unplug your computer  equipment, <strong>including<\/strong> your cable or DSL connection.<\/p>\n<p>Make sure that  <strong>EVERYTHING<\/strong> is unplugged!  Even though you may have unplugged the  computer&#8217;s power cords, if you leave the cable connection hooked into  your system, you&#8217;re still at risk from a lighting strike&#8230;.even miles  away.  Lighting can travel down that wire and zap your computer.<\/p>\n<p>So, when the weather gets bad and lighting flashes, unplug your computer <strong>completely<\/strong>.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecomputerwizard.biz\/lightningarticle.htm\">Also, purchase a good quality surge protector or battery backup<\/a>.  Sometimes storms arise when you&#8217;re not home to unplug.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.distrowatch.com\/\">Get Linux.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>(<strong>Editor\u2019s note: <\/strong> This article by Mark Szorady contains material from a blog post that previously appeared on <a title=\"oneclicklinux.com.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oneclicklinux.com.\/\" target=\"_blank\">oneclicklinux.com<\/a>.\u00a0 We felt it would be informative here on <a title=\"http:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\" href=\"..\/blog\" target=\"_self\">georgetoon.com<\/a>.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, during the winter storm blast, I heard a report that some of the blizzards were accompanied by\u00a0 thunder and lighting. It&#8217;s rare, but sometimes does occur. This served as a reminder as we move into the spring and summer months here in the northern hemisphere.\u00a0 Thunderstorm season will soon be upon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[35,62,9,14,104],"class_list":["post-1944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-computer","tag-internet","tag-linux","tag-weather","tag-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1944"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2254,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944\/revisions\/2254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}