I am on a high spot here, you talk about lightning. Multiple strikes around the house here over the years, when it strikes close it scares the hell out of you. Bang . . no warning.
Blew the electric meter off the pole once, started tree on fire here in the windbreak another time. Then on the south side of house 150 feet away, it struck a 40' tall x 18" diameter evergreen tree, burned the complete center out of the tree from the ground up to 20' and started that burning like a chimney. Had to stretch a garden hose down there to put out the fire in the tree trunk.
Pretty unreal how much power is in a lightning strike. They say the heat in it is hotter than the surface of the Sun.
Hope you stay safe there TMM, that lightning can do damage, not to mention zap out your plugged in computers.