Alright -
My customer took a very nearby lightning strike.
and I have the following symptons.

CO lines will dial in, and ring the right phones. when you answer cannot hear voice either direction.

when trying to pick a line from a phone, cannot hear/get dialtone

station to station, is extremely distorted

tried pulling all but one pdku2, and the rctuc3 and d3, and did a station to station call and still distorted.

I have three cabinets -
cabinet 1 -
in slots 1 and 2 I have rctuc3 and a rctu3d
all the remainder are filled with pdku2's

cabinet 2.
first 2 slots, pdku2's,third is rstu2, fourth is pdku2, fifth is 8 line co card, sixth is piou1

cabinet three -
2 line co card, and 2 pdku2's.
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Any thoughts on where to start. Could 1 or all the cabinets be damaged? I have no sign directly of the any scorching.

of course I know how little that means.

i have tried just pulling the co cards to see if that cleared the station to station intercom distortion, and that had no effect.

thanks
Michael