What are the odds of winning the lottery AND getting hit by lightning? One man knows — Silver Lotto

The Nova Scotia man survived the lightning strike while wading through the shallow waters of a lake aged 14.

Then a few years later his daughter was also struck by lightning while she was working in Manitoba as a wilderness guide.

So CTV News Canada wanted to know just how unlikely this trio of luck was.

They got in touch with University of Monckton mathematics professor Sophie Leger, who said:

“By assuming that these events happened independently… so probability of lotto… times another probability of lightning – since there are two people that got hit by lightning – we get approximately one in 2.6 trillion,” she said.