Following recent severe weather and storms, homeowners in Greater Cincinnati are looking to install lightning rods to ensure their homes stay safe from lightning strikes.Lightning rods intercept ...

After two nights of intense thunder and lightning, some Central Floridians are rushing to prevent their homes from getting struck. A foot-long lightning rod is 99 percent effective at protecting your ...

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 ...

The standard way of protecting buildings (and their occupants) from lightning is pretty simple: You stick a lightning rod on the roof, and then some kind of conducting channel that takes the huge ...

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 ...

The white oak tree in Scott Lawrence’s backyard in Park Hall has grown and lived through at least 240 years of history. In more recent years, the towering tree has survived a lightning strike, a gypsy ...