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Old 07-23-2024, 09:20 AM
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Originally Posted by OhioBuckeye View Post
The only thing we saw that we didn’t like about lighting storms was it would kick a lot of circuit breakers out & some wouldn’t reset like refrigerator. Didn’t like that because sometimes we would be gone for 2 weeks!
This is why I ...
- installed lightning rods,
- wholehouse circuit breaker,
- individual circuit breakers for each piece of electronic equipment.
... and after 8 years - no problems.

Remember - since records have been kept, of all the Villages homes that caught fire from lightning - none had lightning rods.