Protect your home from lightning

and prevent your valuables from going up in smoke

Florida is known as the “Lightning Capital of North America” – and rightly so. Our state experienceslightning 90 to 100 days annually. Lightning may not strike the same place twice, but it only takes onefaulty line to cause thousands of dollars in damage.

In fact, according to Underwriters Laboratories, lightning causes $1,000,000,000 in structural damagein the United States. While you can’t stop this force of nature, you can be prepared for the inevitableloss of power during a thunderstorm.

Utilize a transient voltage surge protection system that will protect against voltage spikes that normallyoccur in less than one nanosecond. This might include the starting and stopping of motors, electricalequipment failures, lightning strikes that hit the systemin your geographical area as well as lightning strikes that induce power surges through radiation of electricmagnetic fields (without a direct hit).

Install a generator that can provide service to your whole house. With a properly installed generator, youprevent the risk of injury and damage from a portablegenerator. And, when your neighbors are left in thedark, you will still have lights, air conditioning as wellas all of your groceries.

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