Parker M. Willard Jr. likes to joke that Mother Nature does a better job of selling lightning rods than he does at Boston Lightning Rod Co. Inc. When lightning strikes a home, creating an electrical ...

Lightning is one of the most powerful forces on Earth, and try as we might, it’s tough to control... but not impossible. Early this year, a team of European scientists scaled the heights of human ...

Workers were installing lightning rods Wednesday on house in Lorena that was heavily damaged in a fire ignited by lightning during a storm in May 2015. Lightning struck the home last May, causing a ...

Does something about your community have you puzzled? Email needtoknow@enquirer.com and we'll do our best to track down answers. QUESTION: When homes are built, can't people put lightning rods on the ...

Everyone learns about lightning rods in grade school. There is the heavy-duty kind on skyscrapers that takes the brunt of bolts and conducts them safely to ground, and the delicate, sharply pointed ...

With a high-speed camera and the luck of being in the right place at the right time, physicist Marcelo Saba, a researcher at Brazil’s National Space Research Institute (INPE), and PhD candidate Diego ...

WACO, Texas (KWTX) - With three lightning strikes hitting buildings and homes in just the past week around Central Texas, some homeowners are taking proactive measures to protect their homes, and some ...

MORRIS -- Lightning strikes have the power to blow a chimney off a house and cause millions of dollars in damage to homes each year. Yet lightning rods-which protect homes from the electric shocks-are ...

TOLLESON, AZ (AZFamily) — Disaster struck a family in Tolleson Wednesday night when investigators said lightning caused their house to go up in flames. Everyone in the home is reported to have made it ...