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Originally Posted by sounding
Thinking that trees help protect you from lighting is bad thinking - and dangerous thinking. There are numerous cases of homes being hit by lighting even though large tress were next to the home. People forget - homes are better pathways into the ground than trees, because homes have pipes, conduits, and wires which can travel deep into the ground via utilities connections. In other words ... lightning bolts often see homes as better targets than trees -- without or without lighting rods. Don't become a statistic.
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Not thinking that at all. We are now south of 44 so in the prior fields of watermelon, livestock and crops. Just thousands of rooftops most within 7-10’ apart. So lighting most likely will always hit a roof. 2 month old Home 6 houses down was struck by lightning, 2022, pond behind, gas lines in the roof top, hole in roof no fire.
Between the 6’s most homes are the same height, with the same sf models built during that time. Roof tops are farther apart, 10- 20’ most trees are pretty much planted with very few old trees. We had a direct hit 3 houses down from us, in 2020. Just a hole in the garage part of the roof, that the torrential downpour if there was a fire it was out before trucks arrived. It did, however, knock out multiple houses of their appliances TVs and such. We and 1 other had surge protectors. Everything was unplugged at our house but still destroyed our irrigation box.
In the northern area, homes build with larger lots, so roof tops can be much farther apart. In some areas trees are so dense one wonders how rain gets through. While we were visiting Family not close to Lopez, but in general area, had lighting hit their house with 6 giant trees that ringed the home. Damage to the roof of garage, with smoldering, but no fire. That was 2007.
So personal experience from 2007 to 2024, three strikes. One might not want to live near us lightning has followed us to 3 out of 4 different villages in 17 years.