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Originally Posted by ronthepon
What creeps me out is fact that our building is struck by lightning quite often. Almost everytime there is a storm.
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Most buildings have a
lightning rod and/or grounding system to safely direct the lightning's current to Earth. American Ben Franklin invented the lightning rod and actually conducted his famous lightning & kite experiment to support his plan to put a lightning rod on the Christ Church under construction in Philadelphia.
As for lightning hitting the ground, if you manage to locate the exact point of contact, start digging carefully & see if you can find/recover a "petrified" lightning bolt. Rare to find, let alone recover, procurring a
fulgurite is a veritable coupe for a lightning buff.
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