Quoted from mojozone:Is it safer to unplug them, or does it even matter.
It's safest to unplug them, but I don't.
Though, I live in Cali and we don't get those type of storms very often, so I never unplug mine.
Unless it's really a bad surge, being off is OK; but you guys back east have way worse weather than we do.
Only you can tell by what's happened in the past with power surges how bad they might be.
Robert