Angkor Golf Resort Owner's House Burnt Down After Lightning Strike

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Angkor Golf Resort Owner's House Burnt Down After Lightning Strike

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Siem Reap: On May 03, at 5:20pm, a lightning strike caused a fire at a villa house belonging to a 42 year old Indonesian man, Hollex, the owner of Angkor Golf Resort, Kathom village, Sangkat Sronge, Siem Reap.

The provincial police and Royal Gendarmerie went to help to put out the fire immediately. They used 12 firetrucks and managed to put out the fire completely at 7:13 pm. The equipment and furniture in the house were damaged, but there was nobody injured.

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one struck my house n fried my laptop, 2 days n 200$ later, lightning rods are up :beer3:
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bolueeleh wrote: Fri May 04, 2018 6:31 pm one struck my house n fried my laptop, 2 days n 200$ later, lightning rods are up :beer3:
Obviously you dont have a phone tower on the roof of the property next door.
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Duncan wrote: Fri May 04, 2018 6:56 pm
bolueeleh wrote: Fri May 04, 2018 6:31 pm one struck my house n fried my laptop, 2 days n 200$ later, lightning rods are up :beer3:
Obviously you dont have a phone tower on the roof of the property next door.
do not live within 300m of a phone tower
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$200 sounds cheap from what I understand. What did they install and how is it earthed?

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Barang chgout wrote: Sat May 05, 2018 7:51 am $200 sounds cheap from what I understand. What did they install and how is it earthed?

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2 lightning rods on top, connected to copper mesh wire cable, connected to another rod pounded into the ground, i wanted to pound at least 2m into the ground but as usual khmer standard of doing things, they stop at 1m, saying too many rocks :angry:

btw, house is 3storeys high

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That copper can't be cheap.

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How sad that looked a beautiful property
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