Interesting post... In late June a friend and I fished while a huge lightning storm moved around us. We got no rain or weather where we stood, but the rains a mile or so away were monstrous! We wondered about standing there waving long conductors...

My father was milking a cow as a youth when the barn was struck. It melted all the copper nails and dumped the slate roof shingles in neat rows along both edges of the eaves.