re: Gas stove and Ethernet cable fried after lightning struck tree in front yard

We've had a direct strike. Hit second story bathroom vent. 2 story house with a daylight basement.

Fried every LED bulb in the house, 10k worth of electronics, several electrical wires in the home had to be replaced, 2 foot hole in the roof. Thankfully it blew a hole in the roof, because it set a fire in the attic, the hole allowed enough rain in to put it out.

For weeks, random electronics would go in and out. Microwave, oven, baby monitors, anything that wasn't initially fried went out in the next month or so.

Lightning is no joke, direct strikes on a home are not common, direct strikes where the home doesn't burn down are really uncommon. We were lucky but we ended up replacing every electronic that was plugged in during the strike.

We had an electrician come out, they really didn't do shite. They checked breakers and made sure everything was still functional. Fire department came out with the thermal gun and checked all walls and stuff for hot spots.

ETA:
Normal LED bulb next to one that was screwed in.


Internals of it