I am not a lightning "expert" and I really don't believe anyone is.
Many years ago, when I was erecting a 65 foot high tower next to my house in New Jersey, I spent several months reading everything I could get my hands on that would give me incite on what I could do to discourage lightning from targeting my tower.
When I finished, I was certain of one thing about lightning. Lightning will do what lightning wants to do, and there is little anyone can do about it. I could attached a sophisticated and expensive lightning arrester, and ground wires in many different configurations to the tower and it would do little to prevent lightning from hitting the tower.
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Several months after my tower was erected and I mounted a very large Mosley CL-33 antenna on it, I witnessed lightning pass within 4 foot of the tower, come within 2 foot of my neighbor's brick chimney and poke a hole though asbestos siding on his neighbor's house to reach a ground wire in the neighbor's attic.
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