When I was younger my parents used to make a big deal out of lightning...don't stand by the door, don't stand close to the wall...I grew up scared of touching the wall when there is lightning and thunder... I guess they traditionally expressed the dangers in lightning and thunder..
I guess this also explains why there is usually power outage during thunderstorms.
Thanks for sharing...this is really helpful
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Your parents know how lightning works. Kudos to them. Power outages are usually deliberate as most of our electric distribution system is by overhead wires and some of them are not as taut as they should. The winds accompanying rain could easily blow the cable together resulting in a short circuit which would blow a fuse. Apart from that, the electrical system has one wire for earthing/lightning protection that serves as a lightning arrestor.
YEAH, I wanted to talk about the power outage during lightening storm too, because I do wonder why will those Electricity engineers do shut out some areas power and there will black-out in all area.