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Old 07-14-2014, 06:06 AM
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Originally Posted by Bonanza View Post
The companies that install these lightning rods do not give any guarantee that your house will not be hit.

Think twice before you shell out a couple thousand dollars for that "protection.".
I did not think that the purpose of lightning rods is to keep your house from being hit but to redirect the lightning power away from the house and down into the ground.

Technically if the lightning rods attract the lightning, the house has been hit.

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