Few events are as awesome as witnessing a lightning strike or seeing the damage it can produce. Nevertheless, when the subject is lightning protection systems, some of the most recent drama has been ...

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 ...

TRIAD, NC -- Just this week, during a powerful storm, a Greensboro home was hit by lightning. It's the second time in four years that lightning has struck a house on Windermere Drive. Luckily, nobody ...

Residential PV systems are generally installed on the rooftop of residential buildings, with a large metal surface area, higher distance from the ground and an exposed location. Such PV systems are ...

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 ...

HOUSTON -- After Monday night's storm some folks in the Houston area called lightning rod installers. In the Jagged Ridge Subdivision in Spring, one homeowner was ahead of the crowds. He had a system ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — A Triad home is a total loss after a lightning strike hit it. By the time firefighters got to the home on Pheasant Lane in Winston-Salem, flames were coming out of the rooftop. This ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 16 (Reuters) - When Benjamin Franklin fashioned the first lightning rod in the 1750s following his famous experiment flying a kite with a key attached during a thunderstorm, the ...

Florida is the state where lightning strikes, and it is more than twice. With summer bringing multiple thunderstorms weekly the chances for tree damage are quite possible. Lightning protection systems ...

ELMORE CITY, Oklahoma -- Spring time brings the dangers of severe weather and a new kind of home repair scam. Bennie Mercer has five new lightning rods, but he'd rather have his money back. Last month ...

In the mid-18th century, Benjamin Franklin helped elucidate the nature of lightning and endorsed the protective value of ...