  Facts about lightning  May 30, 2013 By JEREMIE FISH ,
Adirondack Daily Enterprise  (Editor's note: The Enterprise
welcomes Jeremie Fish today. His science column, The Scientific
Mind, will appear every other Thursday on this page and on the
Enterprise website. We'd appreciate your feedback on this and
all our columns; please send it to or News Editor, Adirondack
Daily Enterprise, 54 Broadway, Saranac Lake, NY 12983.)   There
are a lot of anecdotes out there about lightning and some things
that people say are at least partially true, while others are
downright wrong and could be harmful.  Article Photos  Lightning
flashes during a thunderstorm May 23 near Paul Smiths. (Photo —
Kevin Lenhart)  An example of an idea that could be harmful is
people often say something like "lightning never strikes in the
same place twice." Actually it does and it can even strike in
the same place several times during the same storm!  How about
this statement; the safest place to be in a storm is in your
car. Then the person goe