[Cats Pajamas]

Most people would need an ambulance for the heart attack!

[Cats Pajamas]

Their spelling, not mine.

[Eagles6]

Last summer lightning struck the antenna of our 15x25 EMT building. I was about inside about 20’ away. Very loud. Blew out all of our computer stuff.

[Bob434]

lightening isn’t dangerous- just watch the movie ‘the great outdoors’ with John Candy- the fella keeps getting zapped by lightening-

[Bob434]

I stepped out on the porch for a cigarette once and saw and heard lightening and thunder at the exact same moment- don’t know where it struck, but it was somewhere very close nearby- it was very freaky-

[TexasRepublic]

One night lightning struck and split a tree as I drove past, about 15 feet away. Talk about loud! It sure got my attention.

[radu]

YEOWY! Way too close for comfort!

Hubby gets mad at me when thunderstorms are in the area because I go outside with camera in hand. Love me some lightnin' and like to get video in order to save images of the good lightning bolts.

I video through the windows if a storm is on top of us and it's raining. One night, a bolt struck that blinded me and made me yelp. It wasn't until I played the video and got a freeze frame of the bolt that I realized it had struck just a couple hundred feet from the house. I was glad I'd been inside that time!

[Mr. Mojo]

The odds of getting stuck by lightning in one’s lifetime are 1 in 300,000. Hall of Fame golfer Lee Trevino has been struck THREE times, and each time he was out on the golf course with a lightning rod in his hand.

[HerrBlucher]

I got stuck in a thunderstorm on my motorcycle once. Open face helmet and no windshield, the hail was extremely painful. I was out in the country with no place to hide so I just kept riding until I got out of the storm. Lightning struck a telephone pole about 50 feet in front of me and really lit
it up good. I learned the next day that the same storm propagated a small tornado that threw a few cars off the road. That was one harrowing experience I do not wish to repeat.

[Gaffer]

Many years ago during a severe lightning storm, I raised by basement garage door to get something from my truck.

I’d felt it would be okay since that area was much lower than anything surrounding it and if a strike came, it would be a tree or the top of the house. When I got to the truck and touched it, I felt the weirdest sensation like a tingling or being in a strong electric field. I quickly left to go back inside and just moments later lightning struck a tree very nearby.

I believe that when I touched the truck, I partially grounded it to the wet concrete and that I’d opened up ground channel for all that electric potential to short out to the ground. Whatever it was, it was a damned weird feeling I’ve not had since anywhere.

[Lazamataz]

Chuck Norris strikes lightning.