I was standing about 30 feet from a guy on the tarmac at MacDill AFB in the 1970s. Lightning bolt made a direct hit on him and killed him. About blew my eardrums out but otherwise no other injuries.
There’s a lot more going on here than you know:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLWIBrweSU8
I was pulling into a parking place once in a lot that overlooks a soccer field. It was broad daylight, with sun coming in from the west and dark clouds directly overhead; a cold front going through.
In direct sunlight, there was a lightning strike to the soccer field in front of me. The thunderclap was almost instantaneous.
The lighting bolt was in full sunlight, and actually appeared to be purple, almost a straight vertical line; it appeared to be two feet or so across.
I was working 2nd shift and came home after midnight. I pulled into the garage and went into a room that had a large window and a bed that my father in law used when he was visiting. There was a massive thunderstorm going on so I opened the window and had my face pressed against the screen to watch the lightning and listen to the rain. After a couple of minutes I decided it was time for bed so I backed away to close the window. Next thing I know I am lying on the bed and I smell smoke. I start feeling myself to see if all of me is there when I hear my daughter crying upstairs. For a few seconds I was afraid to get off the bed because I had watched a video on lightning and they said lightning could travel through concrete. We had a concrete floor in that room and I was afraid of getting shocked. The crying motivated me to move.
The next morning we saw that lightning had hit the house, traveled along the roof, blew a big chunk of wood out of the sunroom and split a tree just beyond the sunroom. It kicked off 6 circuit breakers, 2 that weren’t even hooked up to anything. Our television was fried and the inside of a power strip for our computer was turned into cinders. I have no doubt that if I was still standing with my face against the screen I would have been killed.
Sporadic whitish horizontal band in video raster seem to appear over brightest part of vertical lightening. Possible electrical interference? Or need to clean my glasses?
It’s when the thunder and flash come simultaneously that gets my attention.
When I was young and stupid, many years ago. I was about 30 feet from a lighting bolt that stuck on a South Carolina beach. Wasn’t that loud but you could sure smell the ozone.
Also, I was tripping.
If you want to get a close up shot I suggest golfing.
Caddyshack - Bishop golfing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmm-ZGNCv-8