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Originally Posted by graciegirl
A surge protector is being half safe. Lightning rods are needed too...and I am going to get on Sweetie about that very issue today. Lightning rods aren't cheap...but I think we need them, especially after last nights storm.
If you have an opportunity to go to any of the presentations on Lightning given at rec centers, go and listen. When I heard these two men were going to give a presentation on lightning to our village group, I thought ..oh this is going to be a pitch for their company.
They don't have a company. They are two villagers who became interested in lightning after they witnessed seven homes burnt down from lightning in the past eight years. They consulted the University of Florida at Gainesville who has a department that studies ligntning and its effects.
They bring a lot of useful knowledge about being safe and get no monetary gains for their presentations. They don't have a lightning protection company...they just know lightning.
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Gracie is right. A lightning belt or "lightning Alley" as it is known extends from Tampa across central Forida into southern Marion County, over Orlando and even on to Cocoa Beach. Lightning Alley receives more lightning strikes per unit area than anywhere else the the continental USA. The region around the village of Kifuka in the Democratic Republic of the Congo receives the most strikes per unit area.
Roger Russell's Central Florida Lightning page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distribution_of_lightning
I look at lightning rods as safety devices for homes and other buildings, like seatbelts and airbags in cars and other vehicles.