if you live where lighting is common you'll see a couple hundred of strikes a night if you sit on a deck and watch distance storms.
the storm will be in a line 2000 miles long some times, moving eastward, in the evenings of August.
one night I flew East through that . . . what a sight.
ya, one lightnig strike, whatever.
wait till you have one of those hit near your house.
people don't need to know some things. Idiots are dangerous with some information.
potato cannons are not allow
on the national mall
even if it shoots rose pedals, probably not allowed.
I grew up with summers in a big valley where sky-to-ground lightening happened every after noon for a couple of hours, you'd see the storm moving through if you were up high enough, and it would be very far away and the lighting would bolt down out of it.
then I was older and a friend had never seen sky to ground. His only experience was how the sky lights up. So he told me how spooky it was. I was like 'huh, Never thought that was uncommon to know about'
and when you see a lightning storm flying past a big storm, you never forget it!