Lightning storm story. Tell us about it.

Lightning struck my house in Biloxi, MS back in the early 90s… set it on fire. Had to live in an apartment complex for like a year… which was cool with me because they had a pool.

All I got is circa 1988 my old man and I were eating at McDonalds and lightning hit a telephone pole outside of the restaurant and blew up the transformer. Loud as frick and scared the shite out of me.

Almost forgot. Lighting did fry an electric stove, tv, and my kids Xbox about 12 years ago.

I was traveling down the highway on the way home one night and lightening struck a transformer right next to me and blew it up. That thing lit the road up like it was broad daylight and scared the living hell out of me

was in middle school (7th or 8th grade) in the late '80s. when our bus went through the intersection of Sherwood and Old Hammond, lightning hit the substation on the corner and there were "fire works" and then all the lights/power in the area went out.... we were on the way home so we weren't lucky to have school canceled due to no power (Sherwood Middle)

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The wheel is turning and you can't slow down
You can't let go and you can't hold on
You can't go back and you can't stand still
If the thunder don't get you then the lightning will

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Lightning struck my last house. Blew a hole in the roof and set the attic on fire. Luckily it was raining hard enough to put it out.

Fried several thousands worth of electronics, could follow the dead electronics from the top floor to the basement where it grounded. Blew every LED light bulb on the main floor.

Had some fried electrical wires in the attic and it burned the fart fan in the bathroom.

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Traveling down a country road during a storm. Bolt hit a tree 20 feet away. My eyes took a while to begin working properly.

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I was also driving down a country road when the interior of my car flashed blue. In my rearview mirror I could see sparks coming down behind me. The lighting had hit a telephone poll as I passing. It was really strange because I never registered a thunderclap. That got me thinking: is it possible to be too close to a lighting strike so as to not hear a thunderclap?

I lived about 50 years before ever being near a lightning strike, as in never was within eyesight or physical effects of lightning. And had these 3 encounters in the last few years.

1. Sitting in my den in Harahan, had a bolt hit so close that it bounced the house on its footings and had my recliner tipped most of the way over. Caught myself with an arm on a side table.

2. Driving up 55 north in Mississippi, lightning hit a roadside pine about 100 yards in front of me.

3. Driving across a reservoir causeway outside of Jackson, lightning hit a tree on a small island about 20 yards to the side of the causeway.

They call it Stormy Monday
But Tuesday is just as bad.

The eagle flies on Friday
Saturday I go out to play.

Sunday I go out to church
get on my knees to pray.

Home for the weekend from Auburn and washing clothes in the storage room in the open carport. Huge black storm came up all of the sudden. I walked a few feet out of the carport to look at it, and a monster bolt hit a huge long leaf pine, about fifty feet away, that was already about a third dead from getting struck 8 years before.

It slung flaming lighter knot on me and up into the carport and I was jumping around stomping fat lighter firebrands out when, of course, my old man sticks his head out the door and yells, "what did you do?"