My concern for you would be flash flooding, and of course wind related damage.
My favorite way to see lightening, is off in the distance. It’s not because I feel safer, but because it’s great to see the flashes on the nice dark silhouette behind them.
If those flashes are frequent, you can set up your camera with a low ASA setting, with a maxed out F-stop, and using long exposures, capture some excellent displays.
If you’re lucky you’ll get multiple displays in the twenty to thirty seconds the aperture is open.
Take care.
Flash flooding is easy to avoid. It’s always pretty obvious where it could hit, and anybody that gets nailed brought it on themselves. Wind damage is of course luck of the draw.
This is the lightning capital of America. Lots of lightning researchers come here this time of year. And some great pictures, the top one on this page http://www.analyticalsci.com/Astronomy/Hansen/0_HansenPostersPage.htm is pretty much everybody’s favorite.