If you live where there're a lot of lightning storms a lightning rod is only prudent.
My grandmother used to tell a story from when she was young, pre 20thC. She and her sister were alone in the kitchen when lightning struck a tree some 100' from the house, jumped to the brick chimney, down it, out of the fireplace and flash fried everything in the parlor. EXCEPT my grandmother and her sister Hazel. Literally scorched the paint off the walls and singed the carpet and furniture.
No electric nor phone in the house at all.
Lightning rods are cheap insurance.
Frosty
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"Groucho Marx"
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