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Old 08-19-2025, 02:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Arctic Fox View Post
My good friend Mr Google says that 1 in 200 houses in the USA are struck by lightning each year.

If The Villages has 60,000 homes then one would expect on average 300 to be struck each year

Factor in that Florida has more lightning than most states...
& a majority of homes don't have protections, so is there a correlation between no protection and being significantly below the national average ??
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