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HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — The lightning overnight didn’t just wake most of us up, it also sparked two different apartment fires. More than 1,000 lightning strikes were recorded across the Houston area during Tuesday night’s storms. Lightning struck above the second floor in the attic at an apartment complex on Blackhawk Boulevard near FM-528 in Friendswood. Video from the scene …

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