18 good reasons to be afraid of a lightning strike (19 photos)
In the modern world, people somehow forgot about the danger that is fraught with a thunderstorm - and why be afraid if at every step there are lightning rods, and spectacular sparkling lightning can be observed from the comfort of your dry and warm apartment? But these photos serve as a reminder that man has not yet completely curbed the violent elements ... 
1. Lightning struck directly into the toilet, slipping through the vents in an apartment building 
2. Lightning hit the airline's Boeing 787-9 American Airlines. Now the plane looks like it was a victim stabbing 
3. The tree is completely "bare" after a lightning strike - pay attention to the bark on the ground! 
4. And this - split in two 
5. And then lightning smashed the mailbox to pieces 
6. This counts as hitting the hole with one shot..? 
7. If you doubted the toughness of bison, this one survived a lightning strike. 
8. And this tree is now burning from the inside - it looks infernal 
9. Concrete - 0, lightning - 1 
10. After being struck by lightning, this fishing rod now looks like the protagonist of the next Tim Burton movie. 
11. And this cactus was just unlucky to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. 
12. A piece of mud with sand that turned into glass after being struck by lightning 
13. Good thing she was just standing in the parking lot... 
14. These are red sprites - a rare type of lightning that forms over supercell (a type of thundercloud). harmless but look creepy 
16. And this is what petrified lightning looks like - yes, it happens 
17. The extremely sad fate of the wind turbine 
18. And finally, the garbage can, which entered into an unequal battle with lightning and lost 
