Wednesday night electrical storrn

On a more serious note, surge protectors are your friend. We have a house in Jamaica, which is notorious for utility challenges. After losing several plug-in surge protectors (which did protect our various appliances), we finally had a whole house surge protector added to our electrical panel. We still use the plug-in surge protectors as well. We actually had a really serious electrical issue a few years back where a live wire came down and intersected with the one going to our house, caused a small fire in one of our outlets, but the surge protector protected the TV plugged in there. The overhead fans with electronic controls were zapped, but we were able to convert them to manual control so we didn't have to replace them.