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Originally Posted by retiredguy123
There Is one house on my street that has a lightning protection system. Also, the fire station on Moyer Loop has one. These buildings have vertical metal rods on the roof, which are easy to see on the peaks. Since this thread started, I have been driving around The Villages, looking at hundreds of houses, and I have yet to see any house with metal rods on the roof. Am I missing something?
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Drive up north to Sunset Pointe, St. Charles and the older areas around there and you will see the exact opposite. The problem is people tend not to do anything about lightning and surge protection until someone near them gets hit or has an event. The homeowners in some of the older sections in the Villages have already lived through many lightning events which is why you see so many installed systems. In the Villages News in the past couple of days reported the pool equipment at the Franklyn Rec center was hit by lightning. Lightning started a fire on the fairway at the Lowlands Executive Golf Course, near the Water Lily Recreation Center, and lightning also sparked a blaze at about 5:30 p.m. Friday at a home on Cabella Circle in the Village of Hacienda North. This is in additon to all the strikes we have been talking about in the past week. You shold take a ride over to Linden where that house burnt to the ground from lightning last year and you will see all the homes around that strike now have systems. I guess it's just human nature not to take precautions until something makes you.