Message of the Day – Lightning Rods

The morning sun must have been just right as I went to the Crystal Lake City Hall to file more Freedom of Information requests after dropping my son off for his first day of school last Wednesday.

I had noticed City Hall’s metal roof as I drove down Dole Avenue remembering the old stores in West Virginia on the back road my bride and I took from one interstate to the Skyline Drive.

What a splendid idea the designers of Crystal Lake’s City Hall when they decided to go with a metal roof. I’ll bet the WV stores and homes we saw with similar roofs were 70-80 years old.

As I was getting out of the car, I glanced up again and saw little metal spires. They are all over the place.

I figured they must be lightning rods.

The three you see are on the cupola above the room where the city council meets.

Not particularly colorful, but probably effective ways to ground the building.

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