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Yes it can. Tall buidings have lightning conductors which are hit several times every year. It is estimated that there are 8,000,000 lightning strikes every day.

Not only does it hit the same place more than once, several people have been hit more than once.

Sometimes in Florida where they have a lot of lightning and they have tree nurseries They have trees called lightning trees. These trees don't get sold they are there because they have been struck by lightning before which means they are one of the tallest trees in the grove they are there so they can attract lightning so the lightning doesn't strike other trees. So if your out in an open field every time when it is raining and lightning is going on too, you may get struck more than once.
It can and often has.

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10y ago

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Yes it does, that's why people install metal sticks on house roofs. in that way

lightning makes it in the same place.

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An old legend says that "Lightning never strikes twice in the same place". But the

truth is that if you're a tall building or a radio tower, then lightning can easily strike

you hundreds of times.

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Yes. it can and it has.

It is estimated that there are 8,000,000 lightning strikes every day.

Not only does it hit the same place more than once, several people have been hit more than once.

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12y ago

Fairly good, actually. For example, lightning strikes the Empire State Building several hundred times a year, because it's tall.

Contrary to the old saying, lightning is really somewhat more likely to strike a place it's hit before. Whatever made it attractive to the lightning then is probably still true now.

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14y ago

Lightning often strikes the same place several times. The CN Tower in Toronto, which until recently was the world's tallest free-standing structure, gets hit by lightning up to 50 times a year. The higher an object is above the ground, the more likely it is to be struck by lightning.

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Yes it can. The original idea behind it not being able to is that what it initially hit, say a tree, will be destroyed so could not be hit again. Or that since it is hit by lightning it is now charged and will repolse a second strike.
These two event don't have to happen. For instance metal objects, buildings power lines and other things like this draw the electrical energy away quickly and can be struck many times in a short period

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10y ago

According to the year 2000 census, the odds of getting hit vary a ton. It depends on the time of the year, location, personal lifestyle, etc. A very very rough average chance of an American getting hit by lightning once within their lifetime (assume 80-year lifetime) is apparently 1/6250 based solely upon population and number of people hit. So the chance of getting hit twice by lightning would be 2.6x10-8. Seriously, don't worry about it.

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15y ago

Yes it does and I'm glad you asked that question because it is the biggest myth that lightning doesn't strike the same place more than once.

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Yes.

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possible

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