On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:32:58 -0400, "Eisboch"
wrote:


"Richard Casady" wrote in message
.. .

Hundreds oh thousands of lightning rod equipped buildings have been
struck at least billions of times with no damage. I watched a TV tower
struck seven times in two seconds. The picture on the set was not
affected. Thinking humankind cannot devise a way to safely handle
lightning strikes is just ignorant.

Casady

Buildings and TV towers don't sink.

Point is that they are not damaged. Trees sometimes explode from a
lightning strike. In the days of hemp rigging and wood spars lightning
could do some damage. Lightning can explode the glass between a
chainplate and the water. Most forest fires are started by lightning.
Local landshark got killed on a golf course, of all places.

Casady