I've been listening to my system sparingly as we've had a large amount of lightning storms and find myself turning the system off quite often at the first sound of a storm approaching
Only use your tongue to turn on your components during a lightening storm. This will assure your safety and validate Darwinian selection all at the same time.
Grounding antena won't protect from direct hit (even ground rod is problematic). The real purpose for grounding antena is to prevent static electricity build-up caused by the wind that can charge your antena to several kV making it electrically the "tallest" structure in the area. Size of the grounding wire does not matter.
You must live in the midwest. The other night a particularly lively storm came up fast. I jumped out of my chair to pull the plugs. Definitely the safest bet.
I wouldn't chance it. As soon as I hear thunder I run to the system and unplug all of the components from the wall. Unless your system is a GPX boombox, I'd unplug.
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