Lightning strike! Too close for comfort...

[True Dough]

[Binkie The Clown]

1. Holy crap!

Years ago I was standing on the front porch with my son watching distant lightening when a bolt hit the power pole directly across the street from us. Scared the ever loving crap out of us. We went back inside and stayed there!

[True Dough]

2. Imagine if this guy had been carrying a cellphone to capture his experience...

[Leith]

3. Cool Video

and normal reactions from the witnesses.

But... I hate the loud beeps to cover swear words with a passion. If they have to protect innocent ears, couldn't they just blank out the sound instead of covering it with a worse one?

[lastlib]

4. Late 80s, I was 15 feet from a direct strike on a utility pole......

The pole exploded, and the concussion blew me off my feet and threw me twenty feet.

[True Dough]

6. Brings new meaning

to your sig line: "I am a resistor"

Also, you almost weren't the "lastlib"

[lastlib]

8. never thought of that......!

"Resistance isn't futile--it's Voltage divided by Amperage.".....

[Stuart G]

5. In 1973..I driving in Nebraska, lightening hit the hood of my car and bounced across.

Was grounded by the tires..What a sight... No harm done..everything worked ok..I had to get off the highway and have a cup of coffee and a piece of pie before I continued that evenings journey.....very strange trip..the day earlier in Reno, I hit a jackpot on a dime slot machine and got $100.00...(that was a lot then)...SO, I hit the jackpot twice and can still tell the story...

[True Dough]

7. I remember being caught in a lightning storm

while i was a kid in the backseat of our car. Dad was driving. He and mom told me that being in a vehicle was one of the safest places you could be in such conditions. Your story bears it out.