Lightning arrestors.

[t0p]

I don't have anything special. Trip-switches by the fusebox. But also underground power cables, which makes me pretty safe methinks.

[bkratz]

That's what they say for coils (or however they're call in english?).

I think this is what we call inductors. Instantaneous voltage changes would require an infinite current. Lightning is pretty close though since it is so fast,but here is a good explanation of both coils and caps with respect to voltage changes.

http://www.mounttaylor.com/ref/elect...n-voltage.html

[nubimax]

There is a pepper tree 30 feet from my kitchen window works great as a lightning rod it has been hit three times in 9 years. It does make a mess of the tree though.
M

[JillSwift]

There is a pepper tree 30 feet from my kitchen window works great as a lightning rod it has been hit three times in 9 years. It does make a mess of the tree though.
M

Ouchies.

[MasterNetra]

There is a pepper tree 30 feet from my kitchen window works great as a lightning rod it has been hit three times in 9 years. It does make a mess of the tree though.
M

Poor tree, it just has such bad luck. For heaven sakes get a lightning rod installed that goes higher then the tree and give the poor tree a break. Its ancestors after all are a large part of the reason we and all the other animals can live on land. I mean they did terraform it. I swear no respect for that which supports us...

[MikeTheC]

While I do have battery backups on all my critical gear in my house, I voted for Lightning Freedom because I wasn't aware Lightning ever broke the law, ergo attempts to arrest Lightning would probably result in charges of false imprisonment or unlawful detainment. We've already got enough idiots clogging our court system; the last thing we need is lightning entering into it like a bolt out of the blue.

[JillSwift]

While I do have battery backups on all my critical gear in my house, I voted for Lightning Freedom because I wasn't aware Lightning ever broke the law, ergo attempts to arrest Lightning would probably result in charges of false imprisonment or unlawful detainment. We've already got enough idiots clogging our court system; the last thing we need is lightning entering into it like a bolt out of the blue.

TARDIS avatar, Xanth reference, and literalist humor.

"Mom?! Can I keep him? I promise to feed him and change his litter box. Promise!"

[jerrrys]

I think HavocXphere got it right. We have a metal chicken on the roof and for added protection a horseshoe over the door...

[MikeTheC]

TARDIS avatar, Xanth reference, and literalist humor.

"Mom?! Can I keep him? I promise to feed him and change his litter box. Promise!"

Oooh! Oooh! And I have all my original Lego Moon legos, too! (In a box somewhere...)