Outside Influences by Ginsberg Adam;

Author:Ginsberg, Adam; [Adam Ginsberg]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
Published: 2020-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

Lightning Strikes Twice

A recent news item reported about a home in the Philadelphia area that had been hit by lightning twice within the period of just a few months. This was an ordinary house in the middle of a residential neighborhood. It didn’t sit alone up on top of a hill or anything… didn’t have a 40-foot chimney. After examining the house, officials determined that there wasn’t anything about it structurally that made it more prone to being hit by lightning. It just happened.

At first blush, when you think about it, having your house get hit by lightning once is pretty rare. People use the expression “You have a better chance of getting hit by lightning than you…” to describe something that is highly unlikely. I don’t know anyone who’s ever had had his or her house hit by lightning event one time. Do you?

Yet here’s this poor family that just got all the repairs finished from the first strike and wham, they’re struck again. Lori Ginsberg, what did they do to anger Thor? That’s what the ancients would have concluded. This family must have done something to deserve this punishment. Something must have caused this curse since it’s so rare for a house to be struck in first place, and with so many houses in America (probably around 75 million), what are the odds that it would hit your home a second time? Infinitesimal! Perhaps one in ten million.

Well, if it’s one in ten million, and there are 75 million houses in the United States, it’s likely that seven or eight homes will be struck by lightning this calendar year! The odds are small of that happening, but the number of possible targets is so large, the extremely unlikely happens from time to time. It’s in our nature to attribute “causes” to things, but we seldom consider the massive number of possibilities in so many aspects of our lives.

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