Orlando, Florida – every year, lightning strikes cause home fires, increased energy, and costly expensive property damage.
That happened only last week in Ormond Beach – but good news is that many of these effects can be prevented.
Knowing how to properly protect your home is the key. More importantly, it’s time to clarify myths that often hinder smart safety options.
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Let’s start with the basics. What already protects your home from lightning?
Answer? According to the National Lightning Safety Council, the properly installed lightning protection system (LPS) is your best defense.
It does not stop lightning from beating – he guides him safely away from your home structure.
Here is what this system includes:
Air stations (nicknamed lightning bars): installed at the highest points in your home to intercept lightning before reaching the weak areas.
Mosques: hard wires that carry lightning energy safely on the ground.
Earth’s bars: This helps the dispersion of that energy deep into the soil, where it cannot harm.
Connect: It connects metal systems (such as tubes and wires) to prevent dangerous electrical jumps, known as side flaunts.
SPDS: Do not stop lightning – but they help protect your devices and electronics from the harmful storms caused by lightning.
When installing it properly, the LPS creates a direct path and a low lightning resistance to follow it, while keeping it from the walls, wires and plumbing.
Now, let’s expose some of the legends of shared lightning protection.
Legend No. 1: “The increase in the increase is sufficient for home protection.”
Reality: Hama can help increase standard power energy to protect your electronics from voltage screws, but they will not do anything to stop the direct strike. For real protection, SPDS must be part of the full lightning protection system.
Legend No. 2: “If lightning strikes a tree, you will take a house.”
Reality: Trees do not protect homes – they can actually make things worse. Telepers can jump from tree to a roof near or travel across the roots to the foundation of your home.
Legend No. 3: “Only long buildings are subjected to lightning.”
Reality: Lightning often affects the longest object near-but even medium-sized houses in open areas at risk. Your home should not be a skyscraper to be weak.
Legend No. 4: “Lightning bars attract lightning.”
Reality: Lightning bars do not attract lightning – they object safely if a blow occurs. Think about them as the best way to go out to a threat that you cannot control.
Legend No. 5: “I am safe to do anything inside during the storm.”
Reality: You are safer from the inside – but lightning can still travel via plumbing and wires. Avoid using loved phones, touching faucets, or standing near windows during storms.
Lightning is not predicted, but protecting your home should not be. By relying on science – not myths – you can take meaningful steps to reduce risks and keep your home safe.
You have an accredited LPS installed by a professional that follows NFPA 780 standards (National Lightning Safety).
Invest in protecting the mutation in both the plate level and for individual high -value devices.
Strong the regular inspections to ensure that everything should be done, especially after a strong storm.
Train on the integrity of the storm at home by moving away from water and wired devices until the storm pass.
The lightning protection system is not related to fear – it is related to the smart preventive design that keeps you one step on the storm.
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