Jay you don't want to let the surge get into your house. Your power company should be making a robust attempt at capturing primary transients before it gets to your pole mount or pad mount transformer. Seldom will they ever give you transformer secondary protection. Barring secondary transformer transient protection this is the absolute best you can do.
These keep it out of your house and are super robust.
Many manufactures make them and around here the power company will sell you one and install it for free.
These keep it out of your house and are super robust.
Many manufactures make them and around here the power company will sell you one and install it for free.