Why whole house surge protectors are not enough

@erik_squires Yes, already aware, and yes, for the sake of others.

One other thing (that I learned in broadcast engineering): many times a lighting strike discharge does not like to take corners. Straight wires (with the least amount of bends) are always encouraged when designing grounds that will dissipate and discharge lightning strikes quickly into the ground. Also, due to the skin effect of wire at certain frequencies, and the general frequency (spectrum) of a typical lightning strike; in the broadcast world, we almost always use 3"- 5" copper strap (very low resistance with lots of surface area) when dealing with lightning and grounding.  

Just to lower the tone for a moment, I did a trip around the house and found that two of my surge suppressors were no longer suppressing anything. One replaced, one on order. Goes to show - some attention required.

Here's another surge protector that has a very low (specified) clamping voltage (135V), as compared to many other surge protectors that don't clamp until 300 volts, or even as high as 600 volts. The linked surge protector may be marketed as a refrigerator surge protector, but it could still be used for audio and video surge protection, especially since it has a very low clamping voltage.

ENDMAN Refrigerator Surge Protector Three Outlet Voltage Protector for Home Appliances with Time Delay, Protects Against Brownout, Spike, Instant Surge All Voltage Abnormalities