Lots of photos in article.
My best guess is that you’d probably not remember it much.
We had a lightning strike in our yard the night before last. It was frightening.
There is a story out there about a guy who became a musical genius after being struck. He became an opera singer.
“If you’re hit by lightning, there’s a nine in ten chance you’ll survive.”
I’d rather win the lottery. But thats just me.
Many years ago, when I was about 8 years old, I was standing in the gathering room of a camp in the Adirondacks one evening when a lightning bolt hit the cabin and a small part of it shot through the open window and hit me on the left shoulder. It went through my upper body, and out my right hand into a wall outlet, where it blew a fuse.
I felt a very distinct shock, and saw the flash go by me, but I wasn’t hurt. Just very scared.
We went over and carefully shut the window. No real harm, but I’ll never forget it.
Distant thunder and lightning are terrifying and this article explains why we all have an instinctual fear. So do dogs- and I am sure - other animals.
Always check the weather and if possible, avoid going outside during thunder storms. Try not to scare the kids, but be sure they know to move inside when they hear thunder.
Years ago, we were circling Omaha on a flight from Minneapolis in the clouds. It was right after Easter and they were having an ice shower. All we saw was a flash and heard an explosion. You could hear a pin drop. Pilot flew us back to Minneapolis because we couldn’t land in the Omaha weather.
When I was around three years old, lighting struck a pool I was standing near. It vibrated through my body. I was really shook up.
For about 3 months my upper back and shoulders hurt like I had tried to triple my single rep max. For a year, any time I got within a few inches of a power switch there was a static discharge. Worst of all, I was traveling 4 or 5 days each week and the mag strips on my credit cards were wiped as soon as I touched them.
Dannion Brinkley rode the lightning bolt that struck him all the way to the Art Bell show.
Lightning hit a tree in my backyard while I was at work about eight years ago. Split it in half.
Now instead of growing alongside the fence by my neighbor’s property, it tries to grow into it.
Last month was on a plane that was hit by lightening. A flash of light and an instant boom noise. Cant say I enjoyed it much but no worse for the wear.
One time as a kid I was looking out the front window during a thunderstorm. A bolt of lightening struck the street and it seems to deflect into the corner of our house. When the storm passed I went into the street and there was a dark mark where the bolt had hit.
I have a coworker who was struck by lightening. He was a cameraman for sporting events. At a football game, rain had just started. He was walking down the field at the sidelines, when...
He said it was like just walking, then his consciousness powered down, like a computer. He didn’t see, hear or feel anything.
When he came to, he was lying on the field surrounded by paramedics. His first words were “Don’t take me to the hospital, my wife will find out! She’ll worry herself to death!”
Near-miss in 2001 while walking to a hunting stand. Hit a mesquite tree 50 or so yards ahead, blue dots and ringing ears and a smoldering chunk of mesquite right at my feet. Hardly a cloud in the sky. Titanium bow and carbon arrows may be the death of me one fine day.