During heavy thunderstorms over parts of Tennessee this past weekend, one man was reportedly struck by lightning through his video controller while in his home. But how does this happen?
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I live in an area where there's quite a few lightning strikes and have had at least 2 strikes that were within a hundred yards of my house - one was on the pecan tree in my back yard and the other hit the pecan tree directly across the road in my nearest neighbor's yard.
Pro tip: Don't plant pecan trees.
But anytime we have a thunderstorm, I unplug my laptop and move it away from any cords or outlets, and I unplug my kindle if it's being charged. If it doesn't have enough of a charge to read, I go old skool and find a printed book to pass the time.
As long as we're on the subject of lightning, here's a cool tracking website that Elmo turned me on to:
Just zoom in on your area to watch the lightning in real time.
The other night we had a thunderstorm off in the distance near Red Boiling Springs and I was watching the strikes on the site as they were happening, then hearing the thunder boom a few seconds later.
