I live in South Jersey, we had a case where a guy was struck by lightning and died. Weird thing is his dad was killed by a lightning strike when he was a boy. Even weirder..during the thunderstorm his friends mentioned they should get out of the yard.. He told them, God wouldn’t do it again to me.
Three summers ago a bolt of lightning hit the bare ground in my back yard here in the mountains of N. Idaho. THAT was freaky! I’ve seen bare ground strikes elsewhere in Idaho too. I wonder if there are iron rich rocks in those spots?