On Thursday, April 8, a bolt of lightning destroyed a pine tree at a High School in Wautoma, Wisconsin.
According to the National Weather Service: Air is a very poor conductor of electricity and gets extremely hot when lightning passes through it...
On Saturday when the storms were moving across eastern Iowa, many of us were focused on the reports of tornadoes. And while twisters can do damage and take lives, the real danger of most storms is the lightning.