Yeah, UPS wouldn't have saved me from getting zapped via phone/DSL line either.
I built house with overkill 6.5m long 16mm galvanised steel earth rod.
Power is handling lightning with no issues.
Phone line is a 2 pair cable, using only one pair.
Been thinking about grounding the 2nd pair and earthing at box where line comes into house with own earth rod.
I've got some monster rod at work I could use, sledge hammer in after making a nice sharp rock breaking point.
BTW completely pulled switch apart.
Plugged it back in, random LED flashing no port life
Heap of black scorching around ports 1 and 2 where the line came back from router
I think the WAN port on my DLink DIR-685 is not working I get nothing connected when I attache my spare DSL modem router.
I need to investigate further, LAN going back to switch is probably also fried.
I do have another router with WAN as I prefer to have a bridged modem going to a router.
Quickly running out of spare gear, but at least i'm not disconnected from outside world for long
ASRock Mobo survived the incident with no issues, unlike ASUS which is now a paper weight.