[tractorman]

I was standing next to a very tall pine tree in northern Wisconsin when a bolt hit it and corkscrewed around the trunk to the ground about a foot from where I was standing.

It blew the bark off about an inch deep and two inches wide and raised every hair on my body. I thank God I'm still alive.

[RegulatorCountry]

Lucky it didn’t follow a root out from the trunk and knock you off your feet.