5 ways you can be injured by the indirect effects of lightning strike:
1. Air blast from lightning can injure ear drums and cause severe nose bleeds.
2. Air blast from lightning strike can knock you flat on the ground causing any number of serious injuries depending on how you land and if there are rocks or other objects on the ground.
3. Lightning can cause a tree to literally explode sending out wood "shrapnel" at high speed.
4. Lightning can break large limbs or the main trunk of trees that land on you.
5. Lightning can start building fires or wildfires which can cause burns and injury from smoke inhalation.
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