Huge wrote:

Friends who have had amateur radio antennae struck have had them vanish
altogether, or had to sweep up the congealed droplets of metal
afterwards.

My father had a 23' mast antenna on top of his 3 story house. When
lightening struck, it vapourised the glass fuse in his radio equipment. It
didn't just melt - it simply disappeared. The noise was terrifying, and
the smell wasn't great, either.
My mother refused to have the antenna reinstalled.