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Thunder and lightning have boomed across Marseille following the weekend's mayhem, illuminating the cracked windows and boarded-up doors of hundreds of businesses that were smashed as protests gave way to disorder.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

That’s about 1 in 820,000 folks allegedly registering or voting illegally, a rate that roughly matches how often people in the United States get struck by lightning in a given year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

Although the Amazon is experiencing a severe fire emergency, lightning is rarely responsible for igniting fires in Brazil's rainforest.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

Seth Spergel, a managing partner at cybersecurity investor Merlin Ventures, said much of the momentum this year springs from the emergence of frontier AI models capable of detecting security vulnerabilities at lightning speeds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

It was pitch-black outside, but the lightning strikes were so fast and so frequent they looked like strobe lights.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz

Or really, lightninged out by area storms after only three holes.

From Golf Digest ● Aug. 9, 2019

Having thus lightninged and thundered, Architect Warren ended his declaration with a statement mild as milk.

From Time Magazine Archive

It thundered and lightninged incessantly, so that his ears rang and his eyes were blinded.

From The Chinese Fairy Book by Richard Wilhelm

That night it thundered and lightninged, and Antha nearly went into hysterics.

From The Campfire Girls on Ellen's Isle The Trail of the Seven Cedars by Hildegard G. (Hildegard Gertrude) Frey

When it thundered and lightninged that old hoss started to dance—thought twas a battle.

From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 2 by Work Projects Administration