Lightning almost hit my house, fried most of my electronics and AC

[grampahol]

Years ago in Illinois I was up under a bridge during a storm and lighting hit the guard rail directly in front of me which made me jump and my head hit the bottom of the bridge ..nearly knocked me out.. Turned out that a tornado went over the top of the bridge around the same time and destroyed all the signs out there ... I still have strange dreams from that night 40 years ago.. I was up under the bridge with a friend and we had a tarp wrapped around us and still got soaked..The wind ripped the tarp away from us and we never did find it the next morning.  I keep hearing news people tell you to never get under a bridge during a tornado ,but two things..it probably saved our lives and I don't ever want to do that again the rest of my days .