Absolutely! While rubber is an electric insulator, it's only effective to a certain point. The average lightning bolt carries about 30,000 amps of charge, has 100 million volts of electric ...

HUNTSVILLE, AL (WAFF) - With over 25,000,000 strikes of lightning per year in the U.S., according to the National Weather Service, lightning doesn't even have to strike the same place twice to ...

The Army said nine students and two instructors were still hospitalized in Florida on Thursday after lightning hit 44 Rangers “conducting lightning protection protocols” at around 5 p.m. near ...

Despite lightning protection systems, these strikes still cause around $1 billion in structural damage annually in the US -- so there's obviously space for improvement. Enter lasers.

Cooper told the Observer six bolts of lightning have hit the structure since the end of June. He said building owners spend about $50,000 to $100,000 to implement lightning protection systems ...

Experts peg the odds of being hit by lightning, in any circumstance, at about 1 in 500,000 and it's important to point out that not all of the motorcyclists who have been hit were riding at the time.

RUBBER TIRES WON'T PROTECT YOU. While rubber is an electrical insulator, it's a misconception that rubber tires protect against lightning. “There’s still the myth that rubber tires protect you ...