Poor Gainsbourg 🤣

You don’t have surge protection where you’d want it for this particular problem. Say you have a PoE doorbell, & it gets hit, that power will go straight to your PoE switch & blow it. Possibly other connected equipment. But lightning would hit your roof, not your porch. So cameras are the next likely inlet. https://blog.doubleradius.com/how-to-protect-outdoor-poe-equipment-from-surge

I don't think anything stops a direct lightning hit. Certainly not $50 consumer surge protectors plugged into the wall. I have a 100,000 amp whole-home surge protector (Siemens FS100) installed at the breaker box, but that won't stop a lightning strike either. But it will EASILY handle typical non-lightning surges. Whether or not the consumer plug-in surge protectors are good enough depends on how spikey your supply might be.

Lol yeahhhhhhh. I was told a story about that the other day.