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litchralee@sh.itjust.works 18 hours agobut electricity will always run the path of least resistance, which will invariably be the metal gazebo if they’re close enough.
Not according to the USA National Weather Service:
The presence of metal makes absolutely no difference on where lightning strikes. Natural objects that are tall and isolated, but are made of little to no metal, like trees and mountains get struck by lightning many times a year.
Dookieman12@piefed.social 17 hours ago
Those two sentences are entirely unrelated. Just because lightning will strike wood under some circumstances has nothing to do with whether it’s more likely to strike metal.
A more definitive statement would be, “Lightning has been repeatedly observed striking metal objects, and those made of other materials, with equal frequency, provided the objects are of equal height and in the same general location.”