Safety issue

This morning, before leaving for work, I (just) logged out of my iMac and put it to sleep. It was heavy raining, and not an hour ago, while at work, a thunder broke in the area (sorry for my English). Nothing happened, but I'm afraid I should've shut down my brand new iMac at home.
Could newer Macs in general "get fried" easily?
Now is 08:55 AM CET (approx. 02:55 AM EST), maybe someone from Europe could answer this.
Thank you.

Hi Sanjin,
For what it's worth, whenever I leave the house for more than an hour or two I shut down my iMac even though it is connected to a UPS battery system. Otherwise I just sleep it. If you want to feel truly safe you could try doing that and then not worry about the occasional thunder storm. I've done that for over 20 years now and have never had problems with any of my Macs even though some people believe that the shut-down turn-on cycle itself may be harmful to the electronics.
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I recently experienced a 3rd degree burn using my
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