Surge protector

What surge protector/UPS will protect from extreme lightning storm destruction?

The magical one from the land of make-believe.

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That's why you should unplug sensitive electronics in heavy lightning.

i always leave my shit plugged in during storms.

i don't think surge protectors are as important as a well installed, high quality outlet and building grounding, though.

I think it depends a lot on the quality of the utility, too.  I spent some time doing IT work in a rural area with a crappy electric supplier.  Every lightning storm was followed with about a week of heavy labor replacing modems, power supplies, and motherboards.

It wasn't 'til I had that job that I actually believed modems could get fried through the phone line.

>>4
Not just phone lines.  Long runs of net cable can also cause problems.  Several companies sell little inline suppressors that go between the cat-5 and the computer (we use Tripp Lite but there are others).

>>5
Truth. I came into work one morning after a monster storm and found the network card in one of our servers had been fried by the lightning. Took the card out and found it had actually blown the top off one of the chips!

>>6

#5 Here.  We're a (mostly) Mac shop.  Ethernet's intigrated on the Motherboard. NIC cards? try entire computers.  One machine was doing an extended write.  Drive recovery service said the heads had welded themselves to the platters. 
And CRT monitors.  Did I mention the permanent burn-in on the ones that were on?  Attractive blobs of blue and green that do not degauss out?  There were no LCD displays here so I have no input 'bout them.  That was just us.  Every biz in the building lost equipment like POS systems etc... .
Our post-mortem found that every computer in our shop had the same length (80+ft) cable running from the closet, even if like me you were three feet from it.  The excess was coiled up all over in the cockloft/attic.  Not anymore.  And if it's metal and doesn't move--it's grounded.  About the only electronics now not on quality UPSs (now) are the microwave and the coffee maker.

>>7
wtf and what will you do when the coffee maker gets fried? go the whole day without coffee? get real, ground that thing.

>>8
Just sit the coffee pot on top of a Pentium 4. That'll keep it nice and hot.

>>8
Google USB Coffee warmers.  Got me a UPS.