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Originally Posted by Lightning
Seven house destroyed by lightning in the last eight lightning seasons:
2004 Royal Oak
2005 Calumet
2006 Poinciana (Kennsington)
2006 Poinciana (Golden Ridge)
2008 Sunset Ridge
2009 Virrginia Trace
2009 Sunset pointe
All reports are available from the VFD as they are public records.
The above does not count the six near misses of homeowners finding fire burning on their CSST gas line in the attic and shutoff the gas and the home was saved.
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Lightning, thank you for providing this information.  Seven houses destroyed between 2004 and 2009. None in 2010 or 2011. 2012 is still in progress. I would certainly be willing to acknowledge that it looks like we can expect (on average) one home per year to be destroyed by lightning in TV. We are up to 90,000+ homes in TV in 2012. One home per year comes out to a .0011% chance per year of my home being destroyd by lightning. I will take my chances and live with the consequences.
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"Growing older but not up." J. Buffett
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Coral Gables, FL, Bahamas, Belize, Wilmington, NC, Bocas del Toro, Panama and finally The Villages
Last edited by cappyjon431; 07-14-2012 at 09:13 AM.
Reason: typos
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