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The thunder got closer, it got darker, and everyone got out of the pool.

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Single trees in an otherwise isolated area are more likely to get struck than a forest of trees. The electric field at the top of the tree is focused on the isolated tree (like any pointed, charged conductor) but many trees all carry ground potential up to the canopy, so the small scale electric field at the tops of the trees will be smaller, and perhaps not large enough to start an active upward leader.

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However, all things are not equal, because the two people may have different conductivity, the water may have different properties between the two (warmer-cooler, more or less chlorine, which could affect the free electrons at the water surface a tiny amount), or the overhead lightning leader may have had a horizontal offset which favors one
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Did my two friends save each other from getting struck by lightning?

An investigation.
By Casey Johnston

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