It is if you are left to pay for a new Telly or new phones or other equipment, routers etc. this happened when there was a storm last year or thereabouts to a lot of people in Onchan. A Manx Telecom engineer told me to prevent this happening again if any thunder or lightening was forecast to pull out all electrical plugs, apart from freezers , and cross my fingers. How effective this will be I don’t know but after having to replace phones and a router I am going to give this a whirl of course the thunder may just be a few rumbles this time around it was pretty full on when multiple electrical stuff was damaged.