> Trees attract lightening. Best to stay away from them during T-storms. Yes, this is the common-sense advice: don't shelter under a tree. Yet I always wonder

> Trees attract lightening. Best to stay away from them during T-storms. Yes, this is the common-sense advice: don't shelter under a tree. Yet I always wonder looking at all those trees around me standing there for 50-100 years.. how many of these were struck by lighting? Are many trees struck, but without damage showing, or were they just never hit? Maybe I could just shelter under them..