One thing that lightning isn't is predicable.
When we lived in Piedmont, Oklahoma, we lived on the highest hill (yes, in Oklahoma) around, actually about half-way up the municipal water tower which presented a lot of problems just with that. The house was on the top of the hill, nothing else of any height nearby. We were always getting fierce electrical storms where you'd swear that lightning would go through one bedroom window and out the other. Lightning would strike the barbed-wire fence around the house (steel posts) all the time. I had a long-wire antenna that was never struck and the house was never struck and we never lost any electronics to lightning. There was one time when I heard a periodic snapping and finally traced it to the BNC connector that I'd disconnected from the long-wire antenna. Even though an electrical storm was three or four miles away, that antenna was getting charged to over a thousand volts and then the BNC would arc over. I installed a neon lamp snubber on the antenna the next day.
Then we moved into the city. Houses and trees all around. We had our 5th wheel travel trailer parked in the driveway and plugged in to charge the battery. Storm comes through. Lightning strikes the gutter on the house behind the trailer, travels down the downspout, blows a hole in the ground and sprays mud all over everything. Zaps across to the trailer electrical cord, goes into the trailer and wipes out the refrigerator electronics, the CB radio and the auxiliary water heater element and blows a breaker. Traveled along the same trailer cable into the house and took out the garage door opener in five places and the digital combo lock I'd made and installed, on into the house where it took out a phone, phone anwering machine and a VCR.
Unpredictable unless you're out golfing and standing under a lone tree for protection from the rain.
Dean