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Lightning protection systems. Lightning can easily damage a number of different building materials, and the large electrical currents can cause fires within the interior or even side flashes. Side flashes are small explosions of highly pressurized, super-heated air that occur inside the nooks and crannies of structure materials.
Lightning has the ability to strike a house or near a house and impart an electrical charge to the metal pipes used for plumbing.Â­. Pete Turner/Getty Images. Over 1,000 people get struck by lightning every year in the United States, and over 100 of them die as a result of the strike. Lightning is a very dÂ­angerous force that, yes, can even reach you indoors if you're in contact with the telephone or plumbing. Â­If lightning strikes the phone line outside your house, the strike will travel to every phone on the line -- and potentially to you if you are holding the phone. So, if you are indoors during a lightning storm, stay off the phone.