Not nececelery, skittles. It's as long as electricity can arc. Glass isn't conductive at all and it isn't porous like paper, so glass won't let shocks through. Take apart one of those long BBQ lighters and find that black rectangle-thing. Put the two wires ~.5 cm from each other and press the trigger for an arc. Put paper between. Still arcs, but you need to be a lot closer. Put metal between. You can be farther. Put glass or something (glass coke bottle) between. No arc.
While you are not entirely wrong about that, you are comparing a device that generates a pulse that carries 40,000 volts with 2 milijoules of energy to an event that generates multiple millions of volts and Five Billion Joules of energy... a difference of about twelve orders of magnitude.
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You have to remember that lightning is an event that is known th generate X-Rays, Gamma Rays and antimater. It is also one that you don't need to be anywhere near it order to get "zapped."
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Closed windows are not even a concern in this matter. During a strike, the ground and surrounding area can become energized and enter your house through the pipes, or through the power lines even if they weren't struck directly. Back in 2008, the house across the street from me was hit during a violent storm. I recieved a bad shock, indoors, with the windows closed because the energy shot through the ground and up into my house.
TL:DR;
During a violent electrical storm, seek refuge in an interior room away from windows; electrical, cable and network outlets; heating and cooling vents and pipe.
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Lightning is not concerned by paltry levels of insulation. It can still "get you," even indirectly through induction.
I was at my cousins house there was a horrific storm a bolt of lightning ran in under the front door barely missed my 6 yr old cousin ran upstairs and went out my cousins bedroom window it terrified us all. Im not afraid of storms I love them but it scared all of us it was so incredibly FASTand it was just barely of the floor maybe two or three inches hard to tell and very blue thank God no one was hurt in any way but we didn't know this could happen. We went to every room covering Windows anything that would let in any light lol I didn't wanna get all into it but that's why I commented what I did
Not to mention that you can get toasted by lightning even if the nearest storm is ten miles away! The general good advice is, hear thunder seek shelter!
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You have to remember that lightning is an event that is known th generate X-Rays, Gamma Rays and antimater. It is also one that you don't need to be anywhere near it order to get "zapped."
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Closed windows are not even a concern in this matter. During a strike, the ground and surrounding area can become energized and enter your house through the pipes, or through the power lines even if they weren't struck directly. Back in 2008, the house across the street from me was hit during a violent storm. I recieved a bad shock, indoors, with the windows closed because the energy shot through the ground and up into my house.
During a violent electrical storm, seek refuge in an interior room away from windows; electrical, cable and network outlets; heating and cooling vents and pipe.
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Lightning is not concerned by paltry levels of insulation. It can still "get you," even indirectly through induction.