Not where i live, but in denver area, but a storm came last night there, i went to town today, and saw TONS of new dayburners. i got pics of alot of them. its funny how a storm makes newdayburners. like on wadtsworth, i saw dayburner after another.can storms ruin photocells? and none of the photocells were damaged though, they looked fine.

Possibly a local lightning strike caused a power spike on that line and damaged the electronic photocontrols that don't have surge protection.

THats a good point. i saw someone working on a big transformer, i bet it got hit by lightning. they were fixing it, iu bet they will fix the damaged photocells maybe tommorow. and maybe the one on kipling too! LOL. but lots were still off in the day. maybe those the pc was not damaged or it was damagedand the circuit might not be completed anymore.

In this aspect is the beauty of old fashioned thermomechanical photocells: They do not get as easily damaged by some short spike...

In last week at kuusamo(I was in a work trip), I was eating at the hotels restaurant during thunder storm. lights were bliking as the lightning hit the power lines but there were no completely blackout. I think that was really nice atmosphere to eat... Just like some movie... you could heart the rain outside...

in my area, we have some acorn fixtures, the older models had this issue, when they start dayburning. The reason of this was the design flaw of the acorn fixtures. The photocell socket is located on the bottom of a fixture and in the older designs the PC is UPSIDEDOWN so water gets inside the PC socket, ruining the PCs, causing dayburning....