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It gets hit pretty often during thunderstorms. Depends on the severity of the storm. Hundreds of times a year I would guess. Lightning strikes a protection system that was installed on the antennas which harmlessly routes the lightning through the steel that the building is constructed of and out to a grounding system which disperses the energy into the earth.

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Lightning never strikes the same place twice.

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100,000,000 (one hundred thousand) times in two years.

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