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Originally Posted by Bill14564
LPS will not DRAW a strike either. LPS are there to provide protection in case a strike occurs.
"Will have damage"? Is that speaking from experience or skepticism? Is the damage that "will" occur when lightning strikes a house with an LPS of the same magnitude as the damage that occurs when lightning strikes a house without an LPS?
There is an article from 2021 in the newspaper that shall not be named with the statement, "Over a dozen Villagers, with an LPS, have reported that their home was struck by lightning and in no case was there any fire or structural damage." No, that doesn't say there was no damage at all but I will take some singed shingles or burnt rods over the hole in the roof that was recently pictured in the same paper.
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Thanks for referencing this article. What most people miss is usually the cause of major damage to your home from the lightning strike is from the fire caused by the strike. In many cases the homeowner was home and was able to call the fire department quickly and or take measures to mitigate it. In other cases where the home burned down it's usually becase the home was unoccupied and by the time neighbors saw the fire, it was too late. In the last storm we had, as mentioned, the home in Charlotte was significantly damaged where the other two strikes not as much. This is usually because lightning struck the home and any fire was extinguished by the heavy rain occuring at the time. This happend in a lightning strike in Fenney last year.