"Roger Long" wrote in news:gf6rq3$mk0$1
@registered.motzarella.org:

Sounds like I'd better stay north of Cape Cod



I doubt 1 in 100 boats in Charleston Harbor have any ground systems at all.
They all survive the summer storms just fine.

We do NOT have those blinding thunderstorms of the Northeast US or western
Florida, though. Ours are caused by localized thunderstorms that rise up
in huge thermals over the swamps just inland and the wind blows them over
us.