Good morning George, the phone system is tied to my service grounding and was only affected once out of the times we have been hit, so I don't think that is necessarily a major player.
As I said in my earlier post, I have had trees get hit, two Poplars on two different occasions about 50'-60' from the house (actually saw one get hit) and then run into the house, I assume through the GE.(rods) On both of these occasions it took out the lower water heater element, and tripped individual branch circuit breakers.
On one of the other occasions, the fuse was nailed on the pole mounted transformer.
Taking into consideration the mica that is underground, what I question is, does the charge travel above this sheet insulator and find it's way to the MGN via my GES.
Roger
[This message has been edited by Roger (edited 08-22-2005).]
