The porch in font of the cella of a Greek or Roman temple formed by the projection of the side walls and a range of columns between the projections.
Most commonly, the lightning current ceases in about a millisecond for a given stroke, but sometimes there is a continuing current on the order of 100 amps following one or more of the strokes. This is called hot lightning and it is the cause of lightning fires according to Uman.
Wiki says there's about 50 lightning strikes per second on earth. That's 4,320,000 strikes per day. Assuming every strike powers 42 households for one day, you could continuously power 181,440,000 households. That's more than enough to power all of the US's 117 million households.