© Morris StephensonHazel Reese, whose mother lives across the street from the house where the “fireball” struck, takes a closer look at the area where a large piece of bark was knocked off a large pecan tree.
Although the fireball appeared briefly in a burst of thunder during an isolated rain storm, three of five women who were in two houses on Scott Street saw the phenomenon. The electric ball of energy reportedly hit the ground in Mary Elizabeth Park, directly across from their houses.
Janet Brown Gibson of Boones Mill said she was visiting her sister Barbara Hall who owns the white house on the corner of Scott Street and Randolph Street.
Gibson said that during the quick-hitting storm that Wednesday afternoon, she saw a fireball hit the ground in the park and then bounce into the air toward Randolph Street, skidding down one of two big pecan trees behind the Hall house. There is an unusual number of hits in various locations of the trees.
