Benjamin Franklin flew a kite in a storm and advanced humanity's understanding of electricity on this day in history, June 10, 1752. Franklin was also a U.S. statesman and founding father.

Volcanic eruption sparked a weeklong thunderstorm, and scientists want to know why. The supercharged blast in Indonesia generated more than 100,000 lightning strikes over six days.

A June 2008 thunderstorm led to 156,000 outages and the October 1997 snowstorm caused 150,000 customers to lose power. Top 10 outage events in OPPD history ...