Welp, in all those summers as a swimming pool lifeguard, my hair's stood up lots of times and I haven't been struck It did strike closely enough for me to feel it in my feet once (in the dead of winter when I was taking a nap, inside... I thought something had blown up when the crash woke me up but my feet were tingling and then it started snowing like crazy... lots of folks stuck in Baltimore that day!).

The one time I was out doing a one-way ('wind-aided') century and the nasties came up... we rode hard and found a barn. Oh, there was that moonlight ride where we could see a real light show off in the distance but we were in well before it was even ten miles away.