In article o.uk, Dave
Liquorice scribeth thus
On Tue, 29 Jul 2014 08:25:33 +0000 (UTC), Jethro_uk wrote:

It still puzzles me how a lightening bolt chose a tree halfway up a hill
with a sodding pointy church on the top with the mother of all
lightening rods.

Lightening rods/protection work by enabling the building up charge to
leak into the atmosphere from the nice pointy tips.

Furse who make most lightning protection in the UK now have rounded ones
than pointy ones they aren't any better so that say!..

I know which I'd prefer..



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Tony Sayer