Don’t Let a Lightning Strike Devastate Youentire home surge protection
Lightning can be beautiful but it is also very powerful. Just one strike can send tens of thousands of volts rocketing straight down to the ground. This huge amount of voltage can travel through power lines and cause power surges. These surges can have devastating consequences for your major home appliances, such as your refrigerator and air conditioning units, and any other personal electronics devices that are plugged in at the time of the strike.
Keep reading to learn how you can help protect your home and all of your appliances during power surges and lightning strikes.
why should you be concerned about lightning?
Imagine losing all, or some, of your major home appliances in just a fraction of a second. Lighting strikes can cause major damages to major home appliances when they occur and create headaches for a home owner. Here are just some of the ways that lightning can devastate your home and appliances:
- Power surge damage and loss of major appliances:
If lightning chooses any of the home’s electrical wiring as its primary or secondary path, the explosive surge can damage major home appliances and personal devices that are connected. These appliances do not stand a chance against a surge of this magnitude. That’s why a entire home surge protection system is so important to add to your home today. It can help prevent these surges from getting into your home and causing damages.
Dealing with insurance companies and replacing appliances:
Contacting your insurance company to file a claim and get reimbursed will cost you time and energy. You might have to wait weeks for your claim to be processed, especially if other households were affected. Then you have to adjust your lifestyle while you are shopping to replace the appliances and waiting to get them installed. Just hope that you have a good coverage plan in place that will help during this time of crisis.
lightning strikes can cost you big
Insurance Claims on the rise for Power Surges:
- A study conducted by the Insurance Information Institute (I.I.I.), in partnership with State Farm® found:
- More than $825 million in lightning claims was paid out last year to more than 100,000 policyholders.
- Total insured losses caused by lightning rose 4.5 percent from 2015 to 2016
- There were 109,049 lightning claims in 2016, up 9.7 percent from 2015.
- Over fifty percent of claims were related to electrical surge damaging components or wiring, while power surges from transformer or service line shorts were also contributing factors.
- State by State NumbersFlorida—the state with the most thunderstorms—remained the top state for lightning claims in 2016, with 10,385, followed by Texas (9,098), Georgia (8,037) and Louisiana (5,956).
solution
Your appliances are vulnerable to power surges that can happen at any time. Make sure you protect your expensive devices with the Green Power Box whole home surge protector. Our device stops surges in their tracks and directs the flow of electricity away from your home wiring and devices.
While there is no absolute protecting against power surges, especially those caused by direct lightning strikes, a whole home surge protector vastly improves the chances of your major appliances surviving.
The Green Power Box will help you:
- Protect your major appliances from damaging power surges
- Save between 12% to 30% on your electric bills
- Keep your appliances running efficiently