You win a coupon for a free chicken sandwich at Chick-Fil-A. Enjoy!

Here's a question: If it's thundering outside and you have a choice to ride your motorcycle or walk to the store, which should you do. You could get to the store faster with your motorcycle and avoid some of the lightning. Or you could walk: You'd be exposed to more lightning but you wouldn't have the risk of riding a motorcycle, especially if it starts raining and the streets are slippery.

I agree about the control thing; you have a right to be proud of 45 years and still alive to talk about it. Thumbs up for TriGlide.

:pray:

I played golf with a guy today that said his boss lives next to the home that got hit by lightning last Saturday and burned...they have kissing lanais, according to my friend. You, like I, will have to judge if the account is factual or not.

At any rate, he said that all of the homes in that area have lightning rods installed, so this house that was hit did have lightning rods on it. However, lightning did not hit the rods...

Kinda makes you wonder...

On page C1 of todays Daily Sun there is a Q&A on lightning rods. It states "lightning rods won't prevent a lightning strike, but "might" intercept a strike and and give the electricity a conductive path. The don't guarantee a home won't catch fire." So consider that along with the fact that in the two recent storms 1 house of 50,000 was damaged in each storm and form your own conclusions if you want to spend the money to, as someone else has stated, "to produce of sense of piece of mind" whatever that is.

On Sunday?

I would never ride my motorcycle when it rains because cleaning the chrome is a chore! :wave::wave:

I thought Lightning Strikes were exclusive to The Villages
 

After reading lots of the lightning related posts on TOTV, I was being slowly brainwashed to think that The Villages somehow had an exclusive over this natural hazard along with Sinkholes and Alligators. Then I ran across this report on the internet. What a shock! We share the risk and the potential tragedy with others not locked into the bubble. You can read about this sad incident here:Lightning strikes in Colorado park kill 2 people in 2 days | Fox 59 News – fox59.com

My source was, "The Handy Science Answer Book" compiled by the Science and Technology Department of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburg. (580 Pages)
It's an older book (copyright 1997) that I bought for $1.00 at the library.

Yes, it can get complicated. I presented the information exactly as it appeared in my book, no more and no less. It consisted of two sentences, one for lightning and one for motorcycles. There was no explanation of why they chose to put those two facts together. And they didn't give any explanation of how they made the calculations. Therefore, if our sources are not in agreement, I have no idea why.

Looks like you are correct about motorcycles being more dangerous than lightning.

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The above is pure fiction, dreamt up in my bored and confused mind.

You never know what reasons a person might come up with so it would be wise not to claim that it makes zero sense. I had a neighbor who bought into everything that came along. She had the extra Medicare insurance that cost $78.00 per month. She bought an expensive (outdoor unit) water softener/filter. And she had her house washed twice a year among many other services. By sometime around her late seventies, she just used up all of her retirement savings. She wouldn't have had $1500. to spend on lightning protection. I knew a couple others who ran out of money and had to get a reverse mortgage. So that's one reason - lack of money.

I can well afford to get lightning protection but I'm not sure I want workers in my attic and up on my roof walking around drilling holes and what not. I have hired all kinds of work done before moving to the Villages and I have hired work done in the Villages. I even hired a commercial contractor to build a store for me. So this is nothing new to me. And I can tell you it's not uncommon for workers to fix one thing and damage another in the process.

Having lived in central Florida for about 45 years, I know the risk of having my house hit is very low. Not just for myself but I've never had a neighbor, friend, co-worker or relative who was hit by lightning.

This is not selling against lightning protection, this is an explanation of why I personally don't want to bother with it.

There was a good article about this yesterday in the Daily Sun. They didn't advise getting "whole house" protection. They simply advised that people might want to look into it and then make up their own mind. It's not a must do item from what I gathered. And as you drive around the Villages look to see how many houses have those little rods sticking up. I don't believe I have ever seen one.

lol

I used to work at a highly ranked golf course designed by a famous course architect. I noticed that many of the trees had lightning rods at their tops. I asked about it, and discovered that all the trees with the rods on them were considered features of the hole. In other words, they influenced the way a golfer chose to play the hole. We lost a small number of trees to lightning while I was there, but never lost a featured tree. This could be coincidence as far as I know...just found it interesting.

And he could have been choking on a hotdog which caused him to crash his motorcycle.....;)

Thanks for the information. That's exactly what I suspected could happen. Lightning has "a mind of its own." It will strike wherever it wants to. And no matter how big the wiring is, even if it hits the rods, it won't necessarily be able to handle the high voltage which can go up as high as 100 million volts.