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On the flipside, we have yet to hit 100 this summer which is rare this far into June.

And the long range forecast also has zero 100 degree days predicted, all the way to July 2nd, which is extremely rare for us.

Overall it's been a fairly mild spring and summer so far.

Just had the AC guy here.

Gonna spend $5K on Thursday, forcing me to put off my planned lightning protection project.

After my house in Cincy was hit by lightning TWICE (the chimney, did a remarkable amount of damage), I had two estimates on lightning rods.  It was several thousands of dollars.  I didn't go for it.

One guy told me he was doing a major job putting lightning rods in the TREES in the yard of this fellow, he told me it made no sense to him either and the guy had a large lot with a lot of trees.

My house didn't burn, the second time in particular it had about three feet of chimney blown off into the backyard, and nearly every electronic gizmo was shot, including the garage door opener on the other end of the house, microwave, stereo, all the smoke alarms went off and had to be replaced, TV of course, and my computer which was turned on at the time and 20 feet from the chimney was not blown up.

My insurance guy could hardly believe it.

I was told by several folks that no surge protector ever made will deter lightning from going wherever it wants.

I was told by several folks that no surge protector ever made will deter lightning from going wherever it wants.

Think of it this way-- the massive amount of voltage required to create an arc across the sky and through the giant insulator that is the earth's atmosphere, from a stormcloud distance of at least 0.6 miles high into the sky and potentially as high up as 1.2-1.5 miles away, isn't really going to be affected by having to cross a distance of a few millimeters within a surge protection device.  Also, rubber-soled shoes and car tires won't make a bit of difference, either.

Yep, same here. But it's worth it to me. We get lots of non-lightning surges here.

But yeah, this for sure.  Your own power company's power isn't necessarily always all that clean, and then other things can happen on the lines to your house, that could bring in harmful or uneven power to your home distribution.  It's certainly wise to protect your sensitive and/or expensive equipment from non-nature-related surges.