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Re:Blitzortung – real time lightning strikes around the world by phoronixrly on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @07:12PM (#41374271)
You can't just say that without explaining why.

I live on the 8/10 floor of a building that gets yearly lightning rod inspections. All piping has been replaced with polypropylene (clean water) or PVC (dirty) and even when it was metal, the electrical and water systems were far apart from one another. Even if they were not far apart, all wiring is underground. The transformer is inside a nearby building and also has lightning rods/wires and all wiring to and from it is underground. There is literally no scenario apart from ball lightning coming through my bathroom window while I shower that I can think of

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Re:Blitzortung – real time lightning strikes around the world by mschuster91 on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @06:42AM (#41378080)
> I live on the 8/10 floor of a building that gets yearly lightning rod inspections.

That puts you in a very exclusive community. Most landlords don't bother to do anything that's not required by code/law.

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