When I was a kid my house was struck by lightning. It actually struck my bedroom but we were all downstairs watching TV at the time. It was a super loud bang and the power went out, and our dog started yelping like she was dying. We found the dog huddled in the back corner of the yard. She was fine, we think the noise just scared her. The outlet in my bedroom wall where it hit was destroyed, just some charred chunks of plastic and metal that had blown out of the wall and hit the side of my bed. I think we ended up having to replace all the outlets in my room. It knocked off the siding where it hit the outside of my bedroom wall, but i don’t think it even damaged it, we just hung it back up. The fire department came and made sure there were no hotspots, and they were able to trace the path. It hit my room, traveled through the house, and then out to the transformer on the street, which had blown up. Oddly though, I don’t think any of the electronics in the house were damaged, not even the stereo in my room right by where the lightning struck.
If you’re there when the mail is being delivered, talk to the mail person. They’re there every day and can have some good insights you won’t find anywhere else. For instance, once when I did this he told me he gets a lot of mail forwarding notices, and more often than not the boxes are staying empty after that. I didn’t know why that place had a lot of people leaving, but it was enough to make me keep looking.