Many years ago, when I was about 8 years old, I was standing in the gathering room of a camp in the Adirondacks one evening when a lightning bolt hit the cabin and a small part of it shot through the open window and hit me on the left shoulder. It went through my upper body, and out my right hand into a wall outlet, where it blew a fuse.
I felt a very distinct shock, and saw the flash go by me, but I wasn’t hurt. Just very scared.
We went over and carefully shut the window. No real harm, but I’ll never forget it.
These stories freak me out. We don’t have lightning here. When I was in SC a few years ago, the condo we were in was struck by lightening. The sound was like a big metal sheet hitting the asphalt from a high drop. Since there was construction going on, that is what I thought at first. But one of the big TVs was fried dead.