It can happen. Last July during a thunderstorm lighning struck a pine tree in my front yard. The tree sits smack dab in the middle of power, cable, and phone lines.
The result of that strike was 2 of my cable boxes, 2 of my 4 tv's and my computer motherboard got zapped. The other computer in the house was not affected. An expensive component of my central ac unit also got hit and the component had to be replaced.
We are not sure exactly what happened. If it traveled through the electrical line it stopped at the ac unit. Or it could have struck the unit directly but we saw no evidence of that.
Most likely the lightning went through the cable line and only the above mentioned items were affected.
We are grounded. Had some electrical work done in 2008 and it had to be grounded so it could pass inspection.
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