This is God telling you to stay inside during a thunderstorm

[Stormsfury]

This is why you shouldn't go outside during a raging storm.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-q8Bl823qo

[southerngale]

Stormsfury.

Now there's a name you don't see very often! Long time, no see. Good to see you're still alive.

[CajunMama]

and that lightning strike is also why your mama always told you to stay inside and also away from the windows during a thunderstorm!

Hey SF!!!!! We miss you here.

[feederband]

Doesn 't matter ...My sister was hit in the upper floor of her 2 story house about 15 years ago...And it never did rain at her house that day.

[vbhoutex]

Doesn 't matter ...My sister was hit in the upper floor of her 2 story house about 15 years ago...And it never did rain at her house that day.

I can attest to the fact that lightning can get into a house and shock you. My wife and I had it happen once when we were on a visit in FL. We actually saw the bolt come out of the plug and go between us back out the door to the outside. I've never been so freaked in my life! To say the very least we felt the electricity but we were not hit luckily.

[Calasanjy]

Holy schnikes...that looked as if it were was right across the parking lot from you! Fortunately you were standing inside...

I can attest to the fact that lightning can get into a house and shock you. My wife and I had it happen once when we were on a visit in FL. We actually saw the bolt come out of the plug and go between us back out the door to the outside. I've never been so freaked in my life! To say the very least we felt the electricity but we were not hit luckily.

Seriously? That proves that no where is safe from electrical storms, not even inside a "well-protected" building! Honestly, that is pretty unnerving.

[Jason Foster]

That is kinda like the strike that got me stuck (indirectly). Same type of super intense flash and sound of the strike, and mine came with a seriously painful shock to my foot (wet grass). Mine was in Kansas while filming my chase partners who themselves were filming a wall cloud getting ready to put a tornado down.

[Stormsfury]

Stormsfury.

Now there's a name you don't see very often! Long time, no see. Good to see you're still alive.

Hey, yeah, I'm still hanging in ... forgot my login code and well I was too lazy (and too busy) to do a new one for awhile ...

Very active pattern this season, particularly this June with for the next several days, rounds of late day and evening severe thunderstorms pretty much in the forseeable future with the potential for derechos possibly beginning early next week ... one running across Arkansas now about to plow into NW MS and SW TN..

[Stormsfury]

and that lightning strike is also why your mama always told you to stay inside and also away from the windows during a thunderstorm!

Hey SF!!!!! We miss you here.

I've been doing ok ... the time I usually spend online now is serving for poker tourneys (I play under the same screenname on pokerstars.com .. made ok this year as I've come into my own WRT to sit and go tournaments so I concentrate heavily playing those ....

[Stormsfury]

Doesn 't matter ...My sister was hit in the upper floor of her 2 story house about 15 years ago...And it never did rain at her house that day.

Bolts from the blue ... a positive lightning strike many times more powerful than the usual cloud base neg strikes. Requires much more amperage and ohms to traverse that many miles, thusly ... the bolt has to overcome much more resistance, and much more destructive. Anything a positive strike hits usually does not survive. (Also responsible for the heavier booming ground shaking thunder vs the neg strike).

[Stormsfury]

Doesn 't matter ...My sister was hit in the upper floor of her 2 story house about 15 years ago...And it never did rain at her house that day.

I can attest to the fact that lightning can get into a house and shock you. My wife and I had it happen once when we were on a visit in FL. We actually saw the bolt come out of the plug and go between us back out the door to the outside. I've never been so freaked in my life! To say the very least we felt the electricity but we were not hit luckily.

Why it's always told that to NEVER take a shower during a thunderstorm, as well as using the phone, PC's, etc.

[Stormsfury]

Holy schnikes...that looked as if it were was right across the parking lot from you! Fortunately you were standing inside...

I didn't film this. This was from a user from Connecticut I stumbled upon watching YouTube. the bolt was about 75 yards from his/her house and struck two trees - distingrating them.

Last Friday, a vicious thunderstorm did strike here and just about 1 mile up Trolley Road in Summerville by a Church, a tree was struck which thusly broke the tree up about 8 feet off the ground sending it almost into the roadway. There wasn't much wind with the storm so it definitely wasn't wind that broke it. I inspected that tree today again, and definitely confirmed lightning had indeed struck it as the tell-tale marks from the break down into the ground. Also of note, I found a small area of sand at an exposed root for the tree that had been turned into a fulgarite (lightning-fused sand - glass)

[Siberian Express]

Good point about positive lightning. Here is a link to a good tutorial related to lightning for those interesting in the subject.

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/jetstream//ligh ... _intro.htm

[feederband]

Doesn 't matter ...My sister was hit in the upper floor of her 2 story house about 15 years ago...And it never did rain at her house that day.

Bolts from the blue ... a positive lightning strike many times more powerful than the usual cloud base neg strikes. Requires much more amperage and ohms to traverse that many miles, thusly ... the bolt has to overcome much more resistance, and much more destructive. Anything a positive strike hits usually does not survive. (Also responsible for the heavier booming ground shaking thunder vs the neg strike).

I was at work but also the closest to where my sister lived...My dad got a call at his house from a neighbor that they were doing CPR on her when she went into the ambulance...I got to the Hospital about the same time she did and to my suprise she was awake but beating up...They said she was basically dead at the house but they revived her in transit...She has had many surguries since then because of it... It hit a 40 year old oak tree in her front yard it looked like a bomb blew it up... Then travled though the room she was at...Wiped out anything that was plugged in though the whole house and started a small fire in the attic...She had a entry would in the shoulder and a exit in the hip. They said she got hit from a spike of the bolt that came out of the tree..They said if she would of been the tree most of her would of been vaporized.

[Aslkahuna]

That's called a flashover.

Steve

[Stephanie]

That was a freaky video.

There's a story about my mother being chased by a lightning ball bouncing after her as she was riding on her tricycle in front of her house. My Grandmother was supposedly yelling at her to get off and get into the house.

Good to hear from you SF!

[Cookie]

wow, what a flash of lightning.