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Originally Posted by Bill14564
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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The odds of your home getting hit by lightning are very low but if it does happen, it will be a life changing event. For the $3,000ish cost for a lightning protection system for most homes here in the Villages, it's a small price to pay for prevention and piece of mind. Just skip a cruise!
The odds of your home getting an induced surge from a nearby lightning strike are actually very high here in the Villages so spending money on whole house surge protection is well worth the cost. Most induced surge events are never reported but it happens a lot to varying degrees. I'll guarantee you that many homes around that strike in Winiford got their electrical systems impacted and some devices destroyed by the induced surge from that strike.