[whitedog57]

Golf and fishing probably explains it,

I was struck by lightning in Germany, Marching in a storm. Remember the ozone smell and bright light, my back is still killing me.

[Judith Anne]

A lightning bolt struck a telephone pole less than 10 feet away from me, as I was walking home from school in 1957. The sound was so loud I could not hear it, and I remember running in hysteria to a friend’s house across the street. I couldn’t walk for a while, after I sat down, I was shaking so hard my friend’s mother thought I was having a seizure; maybe I was, but I was not unconscious.

My house has been struck twice, with me in it.

[Kakaze]

I know that feeling at 18, I bent over to pick up a 50 lb bag of fertilizer...it hit 9 ft behind me,knocked me out for a moment.

At 20 it hit the barn and ran between the roof and the rebar in the concrete.........at 21 I picked up the tiller and it hit behind me, running between irrigation pipes!

Now I'm in New Mexico and they have dry lightning................any time I see a storm, I just go inside :)