First storm of the season - 720p 60FPS lightning show

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My dad built that house, it's survived countless storms and an impact from the front end of 1970 something Oldsmobile Delta 88 at roughly 100mph, and I mean literally the front end, from the firewall forward, ripped from the rest of the vehicle wrapped around the telephone pole... interesting house to grow up in.

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I have been around a long time in Kansas and I have never really seen a tornado. I have seen the aftermath a few times. As a child I -may- have seen one illuminated by a lightning flash while traveling down a highway. I have been through a number of windstorms and I have been through a few lightning strikes besides the ones on the road.

I was blown through a door opening when a tree was struck.

My present house was hit by one indirect strike and has been hit by several transformer coupled strikes. BTW, those surge suppressor power strips, -save your money, they don't work. Whole house surge suppressors can work against transformer coupled surges if they are constructed of properly staged suppression units. Good luck finding the components or anyone qualified to install them though. The under meter protection units are bogus.

NOTHING will protect against a direct strike unless you have a properly setup lightning rod system or a well grounded steel frame building.

Stick built houses are NOT a shelter from lightning. They are in fact the opposite and attract lightning with all of those tiny little ground wires snaking around through the house. House wiring provides elevated places for electrical charges to accumulate then attracts lightning and vaporizes when struck. The lightning then continues to find paths to ground through objects, people, pipes, HVAC ducts, etc while igniting everything in it's path with temperatures hotter than the surface of the Sun. I still find arc burns in places, or on things, in my house. My HVAC duct system is spot welded together with millions of little spot welds. I was home during my house lightning strikes. It was 'exciting'.

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