Can't believe this guy is not the only family member to have been hit, insane!
He woke up on his floor, could smell something burning, and found electrical components all over the place -- some embedded in the wall.
What happened afterward was kind of amusing. He went to the ER and signed in. The front desk nurse said something about their being a long wait (this was before they wrote down the reason.) Him describing the doctor running into the room moments later saying "You got struck by what!?" was pretty funny.
They ran tests and thankfully everything was fine. He didn't take a direct hit, I guess. No crazy scars or anything... hearing, heart, et. al were fine.
Anyway, my main point is, lightning is some crazy stuff.
In the room upstairs, it melted a mirror and fried all the electrical devices. A monitor close by got a really neat wavy pattern like it was exposed to a magnet.
All in all, that was a terrible afternoon at work.
The usual word is 'shrapnel', but this actually makes more sense in a portmanteau word sort of way: It's scraps that were hurled around as shrapnel. Scrapnel.