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Re:Genoa Bridge Collapse: The Road to Tragedy by jakewins on Thursday September 06, 2018 @01:52PM (#17927984)
Indeed. Lightning does this to trees all the time, there's a lot of crazy videos on YouTube of lightning causing trees to explode.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploding_tree#Lightning

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Re:Genoa Bridge Collapse: The Road to Tragedy by astrodust on Thursday September 06, 2018 @02:04PM (#17928061)
Trees have relatively high resistance so they absorb a lot of energy. The lower the resistance, the lower the impact.
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