One caution: If you have overhead electrical wires stay away from the electrical fuse boxes during a thunderstorm/lightning srike. Especially if the wiring system is older or not properly grounded.
Used to have a confinement hog barn where we often lost a few hogs near the fuse box whenever the farmstead was hit by lightning, even though the barn was never hit directly. The fuse box was next a door that was usually open for cooling in the summer time, and rain would wet the concrete floor under the fuse box. When lightning stuck the yard, the lightning would follow overhead electrical wires to the barn's fuse box, blow the fuses, and the heat would pop open the fuse box door. From there the current arced from the fuse box to the wet concrete floor inside the buildings, killing hogs sleeping on the floor within up to five feet of the box. Don't know how many more were injured, just removed the dead ones. A second barn without an open door close to the fuse box had the slimilar problems, but always fewer hogs were lost there.
A lightning strike usually knocked out the well's water pump fuses, and sometimes the pump motor too, all an eighth of a mile away from the farmstead. Sometimes the main fuse at the transformer would blow, REC had to replace that one with a bucket truck.
Dry buildings generally were not affected beyond blown fuses, and maybe an open fuse box door. Buildings were the electicity was shut off at the fuse box were not affected. Any building with much moisture around a fuse box could get arcing inside the building. All those buildings were wired in the 1960's before ground wires were required in electrical circuits. I now think many of those hogs would not have been lost if the fuse boxes had been properly grounded.
A dry machine shed with modern wiring should not be too bad, but to avoid getting shocked, I still wouldn't let anyone stay within 10 feet of a fuse box during a thunderstorm. Your ears will be ringing bad enough after a close lighting stike anyway.
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