It has been observed that installing a metal roof makes building owners think more about lightning and the dangers of lightning strikes. There is a perception, or at least a suspicion, that a metal ...

The Chicago National Weather Service has designated March 5-11 as Severe Weather Awareness Week in Illinois and Indiana and, among the several phenomena associated with severe thunderstorms, lightning ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. OKLAHOMA CITY – It was a busy night in the ...

When it comes to lightning and the danger it can pose to your house, Rand Frederiksen wishes he knew then what he knows now. When Frederiksen built his house in Franklin’s Reserve at Temple Hills ...

The standard way of protecting buildings (and their occupants) from lightning is pretty simple: You stick a lightning rod on the roof, and then some kind of conducting channel that takes the huge ...

ORLANDO, Fla. – Every year, lightning strikes cause house fires, power surges, and costly property damage. It happened just last week in Ormond Beach — but the good news is, many of these impacts are ...

Following recent severe weather and storms, homeowners in Greater Cincinnati are looking to install lightning rods to ensure their homes stay safe from lightning strikes.Lightning rods intercept ...

Q Our home is on a high hill, along a river with no trees nearby. Would lightning rods be a safety check on our home? A generation or more ago, lightning rods were on many houses and barns. They seem ...

LAKEWOOD RANCH — A terrible storm was thrashing the East Manatee neighborhood of Rosedale when Frances Mallarino saw a bolt of lightning and heard a crash. “I checked my house, sat back down to read, ...

Every year I spend the holidays with my mother in Wisconsin. Each time I’m there, I look outside her living room window and see the lightning protection rod on the roof of the house across the street.

(Toledo News Now) - Have you ever seen a lightning strike near your home? Have you ever thought about what would happen if lightning hit your home? There are ways you can protect everything near and ...

Parker M. Willard Jr. likes to joke that Mother Nature does a better job of selling lightning rods than he does at Boston Lightning Rod Co. Inc. When lightning strikes a home, creating an electrical ...