What are the odds of lightning striking a particular point in space and time

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9. Interesting, not real scary...

Waaaay back on family vacation we were on the highway. Raining, and dark grey sky. Top of a hill with a big dip in front of us, and about the same height of hill ahead afterwards.

Looking across this fat, ribbon of lighting came down somewhere over just behind the hill. Like a 60 yr or so memory!
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About ?15 yrs ago met a friend for dinner. Taking a bus back, it was coming to a wider circular area w lots of trees.

I wasn't looking ahead, but leftward. Suddenly an incredibly bright lightening flash was reflected in one of the bus's metal poles! There was an incredible, beautiful violet color surrounding the white flash!
Nature, even in NYC!

I think we had to wait bc a tree limb went down, and had to be hauled away.