Preventive measures a worth a pound of cure. If your plugs are not accessible, then take time out to make them accessible. Consider this, that some components have circuits active even if their power button is in off position.
Unplugging power cords from amps/ pre amps
This might be a stupid question but when there is a thunderstorm lightning storm I used to unplug my power cords from the outlet but now I can’t do that because of a lot of things in the way to reach my plugs from the outlets. I want to know if it is ok to unplug my amps / pre / cdp from the female end that goes to my equipment and then replugging them back after. Of course the units are off when unplugging / plugging them back. Ty.