Usually it is not lightning that poses the real hazard as most have agreed. I can safely say that anyone who has experienced a genuine nasty assed thunderstorm never ever wants to renew that experience. We are not talking about those that merely knock you about a bit....show you a bright flash or two...perhaps some small frozen precip but those really really black ugly nasty things that give Atheists religion!
They will change your attitude about your own invulnerability and mortality!
Come to Kansas Toto....those are the kind I am talking about!