Posted on 04/02/2014 3:17:39 PM PDT by nickcarraway
An Oakland woman who was struck by lightning during Monday's storm that dumped down on the Bay Area says she's doing fine. Terry McSweeney reports.
A California woman who was struck by lightning during Monday's storm that dumped down on the Bay Area says she's doing fine.
Emily Davis said she has a lingering metallic taste in her mouth and that her teeth hurt a bit after the bizarre event. She got checked out by a healthcare provider on Tuesday.
The 31-year-old woman says she was struck by lightning on Monday afternoon as she was crossing Adeline Street in Berkeley.
$425M Powerball Winner Comes Forward, Wants to Travel, Start Charity Davis was holding an umbrella in one hand and a coffee in the other when she heard a nearby clap of thunder.
"I started to have that metallic taste in my mouth and after that it looked like someone took a picture with the flash, and a bolt of light went down my umbrella hand," Davis said. "My hands started shaking. I couldn't control it for five minutes."
Davis said she threw her coffee on the ground because she could no longer hold it while her hands shook uncontrollably.
Car Salesman Loses Jimmy Fallon Contest, Becomes "National Sex Symbol" According to the National Weather Service, the odds of being struck by lightning in a given year are 1 in 500,000. About 60 people each year are killed by lightning in the United States, and several hundred are injured.
Lightning and electricity are no strangers to Davis' family.
Her father is an electrician. Davis' grandfather also served as an electrician, she said.
And to top it off Davis said her great-great-great-grandfather was struck by lightning and killed while sitting on a horse in Missouri.
Davis plans to have an EKG done on Wednesday to make sure her heart is strong.
Representatives from the Katie Couric show have also reached out to Davis for a possible appearance on the show.
Not Guilty and CUTE!
It blew the bark off about an inch deep and two inches wide and raised every hair on my body. I thank God I'm still alive.
Roy Sullivan, Shenandoah Park Ranger. I remember seeing him on Johnny Carson one night. Had a pretty good sense of humor.
In the category of electromagnetic phenomena, I worked with a lady who fried two computer hard drivers over time. Several times before the computer failed, it would stop working. I had to go over there and touch the mouse, keyboard, tower and monitor before the computer would work again. She had bad vibes. It was odd.
Lucky it didn’t follow a root out from the trunk and knock you off your feet.
That was absolutely the "Bolt out of the blue", and it gave me a different perspective on life for a while.
Well, they did record “Ride The Lightning”.
My son, then 20, got hit by lightning at home while sitting at his computer. It picked him up and threw him into the next room. For the next few months he could see in the dark but he could not walk out in daylight without shades. He kept knocking out electricity by touching stuff. Only permanent damage: one eye is very slightly off line. It is corrected by glasses although only a few eye doctors can diagnose it. One also told him recently he can correct that through eye exercise and may start soon. You learn quickly that doctors generally know nothing about effects of lightning strikes. The only people who were able to perform an examination on his eyes at the outset was an institute on sleep disorders.
The really strange thing was that there was no loud boom only a very loud crackling and buzzing sound. Must have been inside the compression zone or something.
She’ll put a charge in your bumbershoot.
The pine in northern Wisconsin must be more dense than what we have growing wild here, scrub pine practically explodes when struck by lightning, so does poplar. Old folks out in the country say poplar “draws” lightning because they’ve got so much water in them. Say the same about dogs too, no idea where that comes from. Chaining them to trees, probably.
Actually the tree was a red-pine planted by my dad in the mid 60’s. They’re very wet right under the bark where the thin membrane separates the bark from the core. Very wet and heavy until they dry out. It was probably 60 feet tall at the time and still has the scar 10 years later
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