With the coming of summer, the likelihood of thunderstorms and lightning becomes an increasing concern. But should you be worried? After all, your chances of being struck by lightning are about the same as winning the lottery, right?
If you merely calculated the number of lightning deaths across the total population, your chances of dying from being struck by lightning are about one in 2.8 million. But this figure is misleading. Some people are at much higher risk than others. Ben Franklin got away with flying his kite, and only experienced raising the hair on his knuckles. The next two experimenters were killed.