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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lightning does NOT happen "out of the blue". There had to have been a storm nearby, it just wasn't directly overhead. Lightning isn't magic. The conditions that create it are well understood. It only happens in proximity to storms, because those moving air masses are what is necessary to create the static charge. It doesn't just happen "out of the blue"[/quote] “Out of the blue” is a shortened version of the colloquialism “Like a bolt from the clear blue sky,” which describes a situation in which lightening strikes with no visible storm. This metaphor for an unforeseeable catastrophe has been around for centuries because that is LITERALLY A THING THAT HAPPENS. But it’s cool that you think you are somehow better able to predict lightening strikes than all the generations of humanity before you.[/quote]
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