Show lightning through openings there is no scientific knowledge to support the general belief that lightning which strikes buildings usually comes in through open doors and windows ons nuggets of knowledge says that lightning might have a tendency to follow a draft only when the air stream is filled with smoke or vapor thus creating a better conductor of electricity than the surrounding atmosphere electricity generated in the clouds follows the line of least resistance to the earth and would not turn from its normal course to run horizontally merely because a door or window was open |