I'll try to keep this brief for the TL-DR crowd.
Last night we had a nasty thunderstorm. Lost power and was eating dinner with my family in the near dark. Hear a huge crack, boom and bright flash. Turn to see the tail end of lightning striking my neighbors house across the street.
She lost her husband a couple months back and is generally alone if she is at home. I ran as fast as I could as I started to see smoke coming from the back of the house. I'm pounding on doors and trying to open them to make sure she is ok.
Turn a corner to check the side door and nearly stepped on a downed line! I later found out it was a phone/radio line and not a power line, but my adrenalin was so high and I had tunnel vision. In that moment that I was trying to help a neighbor, who I later found out wasn't even home, I could have made a horrible mistake and left behind a wife and son.
I'm thankful that everyone is ok, as is my neighbors house, but I have to learn how to approach things differently.