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Originally Posted by zcaveman
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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From my own personal experience, you would be correct, zcaveman. I grew up in a house with a lightning rod installed. One night my dad and I were at the kitchen sink when all of a sudden we saw a bright flash of light and heard a loud bang immediately followed by an equally loud electrical buzzing sound right outside of the window above the sink. You can imagine the scream that came out of my mouth, while my dad just laughed because he knew exactly what had happened. The lightning rod was installed on the roof right above that window and he explained to me that lightning had hit it and the rod deflected the lightning strike away from the house and into the ground. No harm done to us or the house as a result, but that is how I always understood that it worked. We are not yet full-time in TV and do not have lightning rods on our house down there, but like many others I'm seriously considering it!