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Originally Posted by jrref
You are absolutely correct. When lightning strikes anything, home, tree, ground, etc, meaning cloud to ground strike, we always hear a loud bang depending on how close it is to our house. But if it hits an object we usually see a fire and that tells us what happened. On the other hand if your home had a LPS for example, and lightning hit and was safely shunted to ground, unless you were actually standing outside your house at that moment, you would not know what actually happened. The Villages Lightning Study Group has I believe 16 documented cases of homes that the owners believed were hit by lightning. From one we have the damaged lightning rod, and in the others there was some evidence of the grounding cable getting hot and scortching a bush branch touching the wire.
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Very interesting, 16 homes over how many years?
Did these protected home have any induced damage from the EMP?
You probably have better data. But assuming 70,000 homes in the Villages, and 7 home strikes a year, risk is in the 1/10,000 range?
Appreciate the knowledge you are sharing.