Never. So, what did you do to cause this?
Stand on a hilltop in a lightning storm, wearing wet copper armor, shouting “All Gods is Bastards!”?
LOL. I’m sure that they turned green with envy (…or was that you?)
[Spoiler] “…how in the world… how did THAT turn green?”
“Well, I lost a bet and had to wear an old suit of armor and EVERYTHING turned green…”
Turns
“It took a while but the rest turned back, eventually.”
“But that part didn’t? You Really should see a Dr…”
“I’ve tried. His nurse yells “pervert” into the phone and hangs up…”
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Just sitting here grinin…
Our house was struck by lightening about 8 years ago. It was early in the morning and I was asleep and it was the loudest noise I’ve ever heard and I saw the light of it behind my eyelids, it was so bright. I jumped out of bed and ran out into the rain and around the house because I just knew the house was on fire. No fire. Went back in and looked around expecting to see one or both of the televisions hit but nothing. I smelled something burning and spent a good 30 minutes looking for where it hit, even going up in the attic and still nothing. I walked through the laundry room and noticed the smell and a tiny bit of smoke wafting up from behind the dryer. Climbed onto the washer and looked behind it with a flashlight and the dryer was on fire. I called the fire department and they came and dragged the dryer outside, revealing ignited gas coming from the gas connection and tried to tell me it was a dryer fire and that there was no evidence of a lightening strike. Yeah right. It was an ELECTRIC dyer, the house just came with hookups for both electric and gas. Right as the fireman in charge was radioing in that he was leaving that location, another fireman came up and told him to come look at something. He had spotted a hole in the metal cap of the roof dryer exhaust vent.
this hole
Turns out the lightening struck the cap, went down the exhaust and jumped to the gas line, melted the cap-off on the wall and ignited the gas. It also followed the gas pipes into the the gas stove and the gas water heater, killing them dead. We were never exactly sure how close we came to the whole house exploding but I’ve been petrified of lightening ever since.
Way cool…
When I had little ones in the house, fire was my biggest fear.
Wow, that’s a relatively small hole vs what I imagined. Still incredible!
When lightning hit my parents’ huge oak tree, easily 4’ in diameter, it left a shallow 3/4" slit running from the trunk up 30’ to the limb where the antenna was tied off. From the pictures they took, you wouldn’t even notice it unless it was pointed out.
It wasn’t until the next spring, when the tree failed to leaf out, that they realized the lightning strike had killed it.