In uk.sci.weather on Sat, 3 Sep 2005 at 21:45:00, zaax wrote :

I saw a tree hit near where i live. The oak must have been 200 years
old before it was killed by a lightning strike.

Must have been *some* bolt!

You'd have thought that trees that live as long as oaks do, would get
hit several times in their life.
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Paul Hyett, Cheltenham