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Originally Posted by CarlR33
LOL, do you know for a fact that home did not have lightning protection. Kind of hard to tell? What if the lightning hits the grass next to your home and catches it on fire that way?
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Not that hard to tell at all. An LPS system would have a rod at each peak of the roof. There are at least three peaks visible in the included pictures with no rods present. Sure, one or more might have been disturbed by the fire but all three?
If lightning hits the grass next to my house and causes my house to burn I will go out and buy a lottery ticket. The odds that lightning would bypass my house and my neighbor's, ignite the grass, cause the green, wet shrubs to burn, and finally catch the soffit are incredibly low. There are probably better odds that a piece of a satellite that was super-heated by reentry into the atmosphere just happened to hit the house during a thunderstorm.
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