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Posted by Zapped on July 23, 2007 at 21:16:57 from (64.68.167.144):
The old 2 and 1/2 story farm house I live in needs new shingles.
I need to remove the old lightning rods and cables to do so and wonder if I should put them back on after re-roofing?
They are original to the house when built in the 1920s. They're not the fancy three footers with the glass ball on them or anything. They are just 5 simple rods about 12-18 inches tall. One on each corner of the roof and a fifth up higher on the top of the chimney. All are tied together with cable and grounded to the earth.
I know that new houses don't have them, but I wonder if they do any good or not.
In the past 30 years we've lost a microwave, a frig, a coffee maker and most recent, two years ago a nearby strike fried our computer. (A sure way to clean up 100s of e-mails, pictures and 6 months of farm records not backed up on a disk! Ouch!! ) I don't think any of these were from a direct hit on the house but in the yard nearby or on the highline wires maybe?
Also when I was a kid, lightning hit the transformer on our pole just outside the house and destroyed it. It makes me wonder if the rods are making us safer or making us a target?
Jokes aside, what experiences do you people have to say yes or no?
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