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How to Protect your Electrical Equipment from Lightning Strikes

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

Lightning is one of the most common weather occurrences and can happen just about anywhere, but most commonly in moist warm climates. Lightning strikes every day of the year in the United States and is most prevalent in Tampa Bay, which is known as the “Lightning Capital”. Just in the U.S alone there is an average 20,000,000 lightning strikes that touch down per year.

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