I love Pecos Hank's videos. He's a storyteller, not some adrenaline junkie.
This was last year, approx 150 feet away at my temporary home. My cable modem didn't make it through, despite having proper surge protection. I'm assuming pure EMP rather than voltage is what got it. Also lost an SDR radio USB stick too, further hinting at EMP. The mismatched contrast at the top vs bottom of the image is also due to the lightning strike. The camera's still ticking though.
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I've twice been in buildings which took direct lightning hits. Both fortunately were well-designed and properly-grounded with a single grounding point, so no damage to the buildings or electronics.
I have a nasty habit of attracting "spinnies" and "fluffies" as my better half calls them. Spinny = funnel cloud / tornado / waterspout. Fluffy = hurricane. It sounds much more pleasant to say there's a Fluffy heading our way. My childhood home has been hit by 3 separate tornadoes over some 40 years. Two whilst I was there, once with the current owner. Doing the math, I've been in 5 tornadoes in my lifetime, and I mean directly IN them. Not intentionally either. I had one sneak up on me while driving on I-75 about a decade ago. Fortunately, Florida's tornadoes are usually absolutely weak, and all of the ones I experienced were. Now, our fall/winter tornadoes are the real deal, F3s. Those I don't mess with.