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When Lightning Hits a Tank Battery on Highway 191 — What It Means for the Worker Who Was Standing Next to It If you are reading this at 2 a.m. because someone you love was working at a tank battery off Highway 191 when the sky opened up and the whole thing went up in fire, you already know more about what happened than most people will ever understand. You know the sound. You know the drive to the hospital — the one in Midland, or the flight to the burn center in Lubbock or San Antonio, because the Permian Basin does not have a Level I trauma center close enough. You know the waiting. And you are probably already hearing the first quiet suggestion from someone at the company that this was “just an act of God” — that nobody could have stopped lightning from doing what lightning does. We are here to tell you that is not the whole truth. It is not even half of it. A lightning strike is natural. A tank battery fire that follows is not. The difference between the two is a set of safety systems — bonding, grounding, vent flame arrestors —…