[Calwestjobs]

1. google how many lightning strikes are there per day

2. google how many millions of miles/kilometers of electric wires is hanging in air all over the world providing people with electricity

3. do not google how many of those millions of lightning strikes PER DAY disabled those billions of miles of wires per day, by applying energy bigger than nuclear EMP. do not google that.

[wat10000]

Starfish Prime blew streetlight fuses 900 miles away. I don't think lighting can do that.

[grapesodaaaaa]

As mentioned elsewhere, streetlights were a very different design back then.

[wat10000]

Unless lightning strikes were blowing them out from 900+ miles away back then, I don’t see how that matters to my point.

[pjc50]

Do you want to link your answers for comparison? The lightning strike issue seems to be mostly fuses with occasional more serious events. https://ewh.ieee.org/soc/pes/lpdl/archive/4_Bill_Chisholm_pa...

[rurban]

You don't need to google. Simple experience tells you which continent is well prepared to EMP problems, and which not. Where do you have to protect your consumer electronics from lightning strikes and where not? In Europe and Russia you don't have to.