I survived. It was 50 years ago. Be very respectful of the phenomenon. If you can hear thunder, you are close enough to be a victim. This website might provr to br interesting to you: NWS Lightning Safety Survivor Stories

www.lightningsafety.noaa.gov/survivors....

If your heart beat is between beats, that is at a rest time, you can survive a lightening strike to ground.

Purple teapots ?

That was not a question either ! Try framing as a question...