I was a ramp rat at Sydneyfor a regional airline for a few years and it was up to the supervisor rat when he took his boys off the tarmac. One day I was asked by ops if we wanted to come off when a storm was close by, i replied I think we can get the next departure away.
As the turboprop started the first engine, I was standing in front as the starter marshall, a huge lightning bolt hot the taxiway about 100m from myself. Now to get the picture, the bay was out in the open, about 300m from the nearest cover.
Before I could conciously think about it I was running at full tilt. The crew of the aircraft apparently were wetting themselves laughing, they later said they had never seen me move so fast. I must have left burnout marks on the ground as I took off.
Apparently all the cabling that powers the taxiway and runway lights is like a magnet for lightning. It seems that the end of runway 34R is ground zero for lightning, regularly gets chunks of asphalt blown ou of it by lighting, and that stuff is damn hard.