Your parents know how lightning works. Kudos to them. Power outages are usually deliberate as most of our electric distribution system is by overhead wires and some of them are not as taut as they should. The winds accompanying rain could easily blow the cable together resulting in a short circuit which would blow a fuse. Apart from that, the electrical system has one wire for earthing/lightning protection that serves as a lightning arrestor.
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