On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 23:33 -0500, Ric Moore wrote: > We had a lightning storm and there was this ball of light that > S L O W L Y drifted down the telco line to the modem. I were all > stunned to see it, then it clicked inside my head; > > "U-N-P-L-U-G T-H-E M-O-D-E-M !!!" I doubt you'd have been able to do anything, no matter how quickly you reacted. While the light show might have been a slow thing to progress, the current going through the line would have been just as quick as electricity is in any other form.
