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Miraculously the elderly Canadian couple inside the car survived, though the strike was so strong that it melted parts of their pickup truck, trapping them inside. Door and windows were locked as the electrics malfunctioned, while smoke started to fill the car.
In the US, lightning is one of the leading weather-related causes of death and injury. The odds of becoming a lightning victim in the US in any one year is 1 in 700,000.This is why hiding under a tree during lightning storm is a bad idea. A surveillance camera in Saratoga Springs, New York, caught a lightning bolt splitting a whole tree into woodchips.
A Polish lorry driver was lucky to survive a lightning strike. A giant discharge of electricity hit his vehicle on a busy highway. The lightning spark can reach over eight kilometers.
The lightning can strike you even when the storm is 10 miles away and the sky is clear. Walking under trees during lightning storm may also be dangerous.
Storm chaser Scott Sheppard was shooting a video when lightning hit his arm. The force of the strike blew a hole in the pavement. This video went viral with nearly 2 million views on YouTube!
Check out this hole in the pavement! (Is that even real?)
This man was brave enough to sail his boat in a storm. Here is his bone chilling experience.
This looks both stunning and scary. A Tokyo resident captured this dramatic moment of a commuter train struck by lightning.
Huge lightning fireball caught on camera as it hits a power line.
Comment: Despite the fact that a couple of the videos above are probably fakes, it's undeniable that lightning is striking closer to home. For an explanation of this phenomenon, and its place within the plethora of other unusual phenomena being observed within, on, and above the planet, see Pierre Lescaudron's book, Earth Changes and the Human-Cosmic Connection, published by Red Pill Press.
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