Posted on 07/22/2010 6:29:47 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A teenager was recovering from a lightning strike that happened while he stood inside his own garage on Wednesday afternoon.
Stephon Owens, 15, was just about to push a button on the garage door opener when a surge of electricity shot through the house on Bell Meade drive in Douglas County, his parents told Channel 2 Action News reporter Eric Philips.
“They came in here to put the basketball hoop together and ….and that’s when it went through his arm,” said Sabrina Bryan, Owens' mother.
The teenager and his father were working to assemble a basketball net when the storm moved through, according to Bryan.
"It happened so fast. It was just an instant. Just to see the look in his eyes and hear him scream" said Richard Bryan, Owens' father.
Owens suffered no burns or scarring, according to his mother, and was released from the hospital on Thursday."I feel extremely blessed. I mean God left me on this earth. He could have just as easily taken me away so that I could have died," Owens told Channel 2 Action News reporter Diana Davis.
Neighbors living on the street said they saw the storm and then the lightning.
“A big thunder with a big beam. A big white beam of light that went through from the east all the way to the west. When it happened I left my master suite, came downstairs and told my kids to turn off the whole lights in the house,” said Cy Amadi
How shocking!
Nope. There was no "woo-woo" or nothin'!
Well, he could have been on a weight-loss program. /s
no burns or scarring.. wow.
and how it got in the garage is a good one.. that is some messed up wiring or sumthin’. stuff happens too. freak.
My brother was indirectly zapped by lightening during an electrical storm while standing barefoot in our garage when I was a kid. He wanted to watch the storm. A strike hit nearby and the charge traveled through the ground , up through the soles of his feet. He jumped about a foot in the air and then ran inside. He never did that again.
lmao
maybe the kid should try football instead
To keep out of the rain?
So does al baby....
I once worked for a company that had a very large motor shop, machine shop, and welding shop all under one roof. There were steel supports and I-beams for overhead hoist systems all throughout the ceiling. During a heavy thunderstorm one night, lightning hit a power line coming into the building and the guys working second shift said there were lightning arcs bouncing and flashing across the entire ceiling of the building which was probably 300 ft long.
I also have a friend that was driving a light pickup truck in a storm one time with an aluminum ladder lashed to the top. Lightning hit the ladder and blew all four of his tires out instantly.
Touché.
It’s a magical piece of the universe, that and cheese. :-}
I hear if ya feel the hair on your neck and head start to stand up, it’s too late.. you’re gonna get it.
LOL....
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