While driving through a rainstorm in Sydney, Australia, this car witnessed a lightning splice a tree in half and land on the roadway. Luckily, no one was injured in the incident.

Lightning triggers 75,000 forest fires in the US each year and can split entire trees down the middle in a split second. So it’s frightening to imagine what it does inside a human body.

Yes, standing under a tree in a lightning storm is extremely dangerous. Don't do it. But, there's one place you can be that's even deadlier — out in the open. According to NOAA records ...

Lightning struck the tree during a storm on 21 September, causing the tree to split in half and fall on to bungalows in Sandhurst Road. People whose homes were damaged said they had been calling ...