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Old 06-13-2022, 07:56 AM
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Originally Posted by MandoMan View Post
I have surge protectors, too. I’ve read that driving a few long rods into the sandy soil here is insufficient for grounding lightning rods if there is a direct hit. Supposedly, the system needs to be attached to a copper cable six feet deep that runs all the way around the house. People with rods may have a false peace of mind. I’ve also read that houses with lightning rods are more likely to be hit because the rods draw the lightning. I don’t know if these things are true. I wonder if steel roofs are more likely to be hit. I haven’t heard that they are, and that seems odd.
On the one question highlighted above, it is my understanding based on my research at the time we had a LPS installed that the system does not attract OR repel lightning.

We had our system installed primarily because our home has natural gas. This is not distributed throughout the house with, say, the black pipe that we knew up north but rather by a material far more flimsy (for lack of a better word but meaning essentially the same. And of course gas is distributed through the attic and then dropped down the walls to range, water heater, furnace, and clothes dryer. Without LPS I'd have little to no confidence in the gas piping permitted here in TV.