Forget three strikes and you're out, if your home or business is hit by an electrical surge, it's one strike and everything will be out – TVs, computers and every electrical appliance you can think of.

 Living in beautiful SW Florida has plenty of upsides, but we do have the occasional downside too, one of which is the tremendous electrical storms we get. From June through October it's more than likely we'll be hit with a fair sized thunderstorm each day, and with each one comes an awful lot of electrical activity in the form of lightning.

 It's this lightning that is such a threat to your home (or place of business), or more precisely your home's contents. Lightning strikes cause massive electrical spikes, or surges, either through direct contact (lightening strike) with a property, or through causing interruptions to your power service (a lightening strike knocking out an electric sub station). Surges or spikes are impossible to predict but inevitably cause damage whenever they occur.

 Years ago your parent's might have dashed around the house unplugging electrical appliances from the wall sockets during an electrical storm, but in those days that was often just the TV and the fridge. With so many of our possessions powered by electricity these days (multiple TVs, computers, smart phones, kitchen gadgets, lamps and lights, HiFis, bathroom accessories, etc.) that isn't really a practical solution. In more recent times people have turned to surge protection strips, but these too have become inconvenient due to the number of appliances, large and small, we currently need to plug into the wall. Short of buying a surge strip for each and every wall socket – which would be unbelievably costly, not to say unsightly – these strips simply can't protect every device in our homes.

For complete peace of mind and assurance that your home and its electrical devices are protected form SW Florida's electrical storms, you need whole house surge protection.

Whole house surge protection is a comprehensive safeguard against electrical spikes, and has to be installed by licensed electricians. It might seem like an extreme step to take, but if you add up the value of everything you have plugged into a wall socket in your home or business, surge protection is the obvious way to go.

Don't wait for lightning to strike, get on the phone to your local electrical service specialist and ask about whole house service protection.