I took a couple direct hits when I was back in Kansas.  I had one of those 
fuse boxes with screw in fuses like we use to use that turned off the 
power to the station desk.  It blew the lid open on that box and literally 
blew the fuses out on the desk.  I had a dial telephone and it quit.  When 
I took it apart, it looked fine, but when I looked at the little jumper 
wires on the block inside, there was no coper, just insulation with spade 
lugs on each end.  A friend was driving by my house at the time and he 
happened to glance toward my tower, and he said it was a giant ball of 
fire.  I lost all kinds of radio stuff.  The strange part of that was I 
had unplugged everything and thought the storm was gone so had hooked 
stuff back up.  One of those that came out of the back of the cloud that 
got me.
73
Butch Bussen
wa0vjr
open Node 3148
Las Vegas