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Old 07-28-2024, 09:06 AM
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Originally Posted by Nana2Teddy View Post
I’m 2 streets over from that DeLuna home that was hit. It’s nerve wracking every storm we get. A day ago lightning struck at LobLolly golf course near here. Some Deluna residents captured the lightning bolt off in the distance with their phone camera. We definitely heard it hit.
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 and yours that you mentioned today. I know A1 and Triangle lightning protection installers are booked up for several months so I'm sure after these couple of weeks of strikes you will see more systems installed. BUT I can tell you this, even if 50% of the homes in the Villages without a LPS were to call Triangle and A1 today to order a system, they probably couldn't install them all in our lifetime here in the Villages.