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Lightning can strike twice

YEARS ago, we lived in a hamlet on the South Downs, where, on hot, dry summer evenings, we would sit out to watch the lightning flash and flicker out at sea. Sometimes, the lightning was accompanied by rolls of distant thunder and we felt a little like those Georgian picnickers who used to watch a battle from the neighbouring hill, with skirmishes

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