Lightning Strikes

[otaypanky]

This was a crazy story ~

 

[Spudman]

That's bizarre. Getting struck in your house.

This happened just a couple weeks ago. 16 suffered multiple lightning strikes and 1 was completely blown off the mountain. It was very tragic. The storm that did it was full of electrical energy and every other energy too. Very powerful.

 

[otaypanky]

While on a 3 day hike above timberline in the White Mountains of NH, back in my college days, 3 of us were caught by surprise in a raging electrical storm. The winds were ripping and the hail stones felt like pellets fired from an air rifle. We all made it out alive, but it was a pretty scary situation. When the hair on my arms stood up from all the charge in the air I actually had a moment when I went from sheer terror thinking I was about to die to total calm and I saw a fast motion mental movie of my life and all the people that had been of real importance.
There was a hiker killed by lightning later that same month on the same peak we were on.