Do You Unplug Equipment During Thunderstorms?

One evening the ex and I, sitting in the TV room, had a bolt hit that side of the house. An arc came out a outlet on the far side of the room, split between us and went in an outlet behind us. Just the proximity to the TV killed it. If it had happened on the other side of the house, in the audio room, I believe it would have killed the system. It was one of the freakiest things I've ever seen.

I always unplug. Seen too many weird occurrences here in Florida (I'm talking about lightning now). 

Starting in March I unplug the rig from the wall every time I’m done with a listening session. I start leaving the rig plugged into the wall around late October.

A fellow audiophile had his new AR integrated tube amp blow up from a lightning strike last year!

@jimintally I went to the precaution of throwing my coax back out the window as well!

@mtaudio406 Hey my handle of Guscreek refers to my old place outside of Missoula and Alberton.  Summers in the Rockies brought very predictable thunderstorms building around 330.  The possibility of severe lightning was certain so I unplugged every morning.  That was nothing compared to eastern Montana.  HOURS of unending lightning (way funner to watch when its not going set the forest around you on fire).  Again, about 330 the Monster Cumulonimbus would start to build and the portable music came on.  Had a bolt hit the street and you would have thought a bomb had just gone off. 

So Yes ;)