What exactly is lightning?

Ancient inhabitants, who were admittedly very stupid, thought it was something about Zeus being on one? Something about some lady up there who'd really been a pain and basically he wanted to murder all of us over it.

But through modern technology and the work that Bill Paxton did, we've discovered that lightning is basically harmless in most instances. I mean sometimes it strikes the same guy seven times and then he can tell you what day of the week Julius Caesar was killed, but for the most part it just hits farms.

The Lightning Capital of Utah

According to thehill.com, the city that gets the most lightning strikes in Utah is...Modena.

Modena is an unincorporated town in Iron County by the Nevada border.

It gets 43 lightning strikes per square kilometer per year.

Here's some details about their methodology:

"The report named a lightning capital for each U.S. state – but what that means varies significantly by state. For example, while Lime Village saw the highest concentration of lightning strikes in Alaska (3 per square kilometer), it comes nowhere near Mulhall, Oklahoma, where there were 302 strikes per square kilometer in 2022." (LINK TO FULL ARTICLE)

The city with the most strikes in the country was Four Corners, Florida. It got 474 strikes!

That's insane.

Florida is a place that will kill you 7 ways before lunchtime. Gators, bath salt people, crocodiles, meth, panthers, hurricanes, floods, snakes.

I understand that it's warm but about a third of Florida men are looking to kill you. And they're hopped up on something. It's a battle you can't win.

Be safe out there!