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Originally Posted by Bill14564
So if you're ruling out that lightning might strike a home without significant damage and you are standing by the 17 documented strikes then are you saying those with LPS are terribly unlucky or are you saying the LPS results in more likelihood of a home being struck?
It's just statistics..... A relatively high number of strikes on a relatively small number of homes has to have some explanation.
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I'm saying here in the Villages we have 17 documented cases and yes lightning can strike the same location more than once. Lightning is just unpredictible. It depends on the storm, how intense it is, it's location to your home and other potentional points, the terraine, etc.. If you do the research you will find the actual statistics that demonstrate having a LPS significantly lowers the risk of you home having significant damage and or burning down to the ground from a strike but it doesn't guarantee your home will not be hit. All the LPS system will do is if your home is hit, is provide a safe path to ground vs damage and fire to your home.
No, having a LPS does not increase the chance of a home being struck.
Just the opposite. What people don’t understand is during a severe storm the storm clouds build up a charge and everything on the ground will build up a charge as well. If your house has enough charge and the cloud above has has enough of the opposite charge, lightning is going to complete the circuit and you will have a lightning strike. If you have lightning rods on your home and your house has the most charge in relation to the clouds above, the rods will be the point where the lightning is discharged and passed safely to ground. If you don’t have rods, the charge will knock a hole in your roof and ricochet in the attic like a bullet looking for ground starting fires all over the place. This is why homes get hit by lightgning even though the house next-door or across the street all lightning rods. It makes no difference.