Doug W.

I actually work for an electrical utility. One of the interesting things our linemen have noticed about lightning out in the boondocks. It seems to travel down our electrical lines for quite a ways. Most if not all the houses along the way have little or no problems. If you happen to be the last person on the line where it ends, you tend to have re-occuring problems with lightning. This is also the first place the linemen look for a blown lightning arrestor we put on the line to try to protect our customers. These devices tend to short when hit by lightning and the fuses keep blowing when they replace them. The lineman think it is because lightning looks for the pathway of least resistance, but if it does not find one it has to go somewhere when it hits the end of the line. If they have aerial lines in a campground I will not use a camping spot at the end of the aerial line.