Catchy title!
Many years ago, we had a lightning strike hit a tree which was directly over some tunnels that carried our dual coax cable and telephone lines. Luckily, it mostly just fried some of the coax cable and telephone lines. Most of our equipment at that time was dumb terminals. Some of those had to be replaced also.
But, one particular PC was near an electric junction box. It took us 2 months to discover all of the problems with it. You see, the user was out on medical leave, so when she returned, first she discovered that her phone line was crapped out. Then, she couldn't fire up her PC - motherboard was blown. Then, her sound didn't work right - sound card replaced. She couldn't print - her RS232 cable had to be replaced. She had a single-line phone and she used it for her dial-up modem,but didn't use it daily. At first, we thought it was her signon, until I got the bright idea of ignoring the outside company's overwhelming paranoia with her signon and tried her signon on another working PC and modem in the same department, which worked - the modem dialed up and connected, but did not communicate properly! Once the modem was replaced and she could signon from her own PC, she changed the account password.
As I recall, my company submitted a claim for insurance and covered most of the repairs - but the modem wasn't covered because we had already submitted the claim!
Live and learn! Now, at home, we tend to unplug the computers and the TV sets during a lightning storm.