[Cicero]

It does happen. I was crewing in a sailboat race during a thunder storm, and holding on to the jib sheet in case we got hit by a blast of wind and needed to let it out quickly.

Lightning struck the water about 20 yards away, and I felt a surge of electricity come up my arm through the wet sheet.

I let go of it.

It was certainly a shocking experience. Obviously I only got a little bit of the lightning bolt. I presume something similar happened to this lady, or she wouldn’t still be with us.

[Mears]

” I felt a surge of electricity come up my arm —————”

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When that happened to me I was having a stroke.

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[Osage Orange]

Shocking!!!

hehehe

[RegulatorCountry]

A direct hit would have blown her right out of her shoes and possibly other articles of clothing. Passersby likely would have had to put out flames from clothing remaining, her hair, etcetera. It’s a pretty massive zot. Not too many survive.

Knew of an older guy when I was just a kid, who had been struck on his tractor trying to get it into the barn before a storm. He had multiple skin grafts. Looked like it came out at his joints, elbows in particular were a mess. He had lingering memory and balance problems in addition to physical issues.

[Calvin Locke]

I have a couple of relatives that were "hit" by lightning. One was cleaning leaves off a drain (during the storm) next to the house, and a bolt struck the next yard over. He more than felt it.

Another was an airman assigned to an army unit on a training exercise. He was on a field telephone when the line got zapped, and he stopped breathing. The unit's CO was able to revive him.

[Ladysforest]

I had a similar jolt - but I was in a basement (unfinished house) that was taking on water. The well-pump thingy got struck and it traveled across the water covered yard and zapped the crap out of me. I felt tingly for some time afterwards.

I met a guy who had been directly hit by lighting twice! He said that some electrical things don’t work properly around him anymore.

[PUGACHEV]

I was sitting by the beach at South Beach Miami Beach back in 1988 when it was still a mix of Cubans and old folks living in those huge old hotels by the beach on their social security. It was a mild cloudless day, without a hint of bad weather. Then, from nowhere, there was a flash and a crack of thunder about 100 feet away on the beach. Lightning had struck someone dead in an instant, and he just lay there as people ran over to him. Finally, an ambulance drove onto the beach and they took him away. There was no second strike, but a storm came up maybe a half an hour later.

That was absolutely the "Bolt out of the blue", and it gave me a different perspective on life for a while.