Due to my various life experiences, I am afraid I have used up all my lightning Karma. One of the reasons I live in Anchorage now is there are no thunderstorms here. Living in SE New Mexico, I reached my limit of tolerance for lightning.

Sometimes knowing how a thing really works and what it can do is TMI. Any more, being out in a thunderstorm is like having someone swinging the muzzle of a loaded gun back and forth past your face in between shots downrange. That's what it feels like to me. Just too many near misses and getting stuck in bad spots with no way to get out.

I've heard that there's a chance of surviving cloud to ground strikes, but no one can survive a ground to cloud strike unprotected.