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My aunt and uncle built a house on my grandfather's ranch in the early 70's. We used to spend a lot of weekends up there when it was being built. It was on one of the highest spots of land and was almost entirely windows because the view was so incredible.
Anyhoo, one weekend we were there and there was a huge lightning storm. A strike hit the house and we saw sparks fly out of all the electrical sockets. After they repaired all that, they put up a lightning rod ;)
The house we lived in Savannah had some sort of weird lightning attractor in the back yard. We had 3 strikes there in the 18 months we lived in it. Once it wrapped around a tree and the tree was on fire just in the circular motion for about 5 minutes, once the same thing happened as at my aunt and uncle's - the sparks came through the sockets, and once we just watched as it hit directly in the backyard and left a burn mark.
I'm not scared of much, but I have mucho respect for Mother Nature.
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