If any of you have heard the presentation given by volunteers with NO connection to any lightning rod company, please go and hear it. One of the presenters who calls himself Lightning posts on this forum and writes a column for the POA newsletter.
Our village invited him to speak to us collectively and he and his cohort give a very good power point presentation. They have educated themselves through contact with University of Floridas experts on this issue and they are excellent. They will not tout any installer but will tell you what to watch for from shyster installers.
It is not cheap to have a good lightning rod system in stalled. If I remember correctly it is somewhere around a couple of thousand dollars and we have yet to do it, but of course the recent house destroyed nudges us to get it done. The home destroyed this week makes it eight homes in eight years. There was vacant year and one year had two.
Everyone should start by buying or renting surge protection. Both for the main panel in the garage and individually for all appliances and electrical things.
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