Can lightning hit a spot twice?

Question

For example if my living room gets struck by lightning then 100 years later can lighting strick the same spot again?

Answer 1

Yes. The Empire State Building has been hit hundreds of times.

Answer 2

My grandfather once told me about a tree located about a mile from his workplace. In the course of a exceptionally wet summer that tree was hit about 5 times. Two of the strikes occurred in the same rainstorm about an hour apart. Why would he and his co-workers pay such attention to the details of lightning strikes--especially when this is FL aka the lightning capital of the US? Well they were all employees of the local power company, FP&L, and knew the resulting surges and spikes through 1960s era power generation technology would cause the following several hours to be a real pain in the a**. And, even after all the strikes and exploded limbs, the tree was still mostly standing and was still alive.
So, yes, the whole lightning never strikes in the same place twice is a myth.

Answer 3

Yes, it certainly can strike the same spot many years apart. That happened to the church I attended as a child. Lightning struck the church when my parents were small, and it struck again when I was in high school. Same church on the same site.

Answer 4

well although the empire state building gets struck many times a year you will never hear of it being struck back to back in minutes. after lightning strikes the electrons are exchanged and so if electrons are replenished to the same spot then lighting could strike again (like empire state). but in quick succession.......rarely ever happens. essentially yes it can

Answer 5

Yes, numerous times.

Answer 6

The myth refers to lighting hitting twice during the same storm.

What are the odds???

God bless;Bob

Answer 7

Yes, the whole "lightening can't strike the same place twice" thing is a myth.

Answer 8

Absolutely!

Answer 9

Yes, it can strike the same place many times in one storm.

Answer 10

Yeah