Saturday, June 3, 2006

Woman Hit By Lightning While Praying

DAPHNE, Ala. -- Worried about the safety of her family during a stormy Memorial Day trip to the beach, Clara Jean Brown stood in her kitchen and prayed for their safe return as a strong thunderstorm rumbled through Baldwin County, Alabama. lightning200.jpgBut while she prayed, lightning suddenly exploded, blowing through the linoleum and leaving a blackened area on the concrete. Brown wound up on the floor, dazed and disoriented by the blast but otherwise uninjured. She said 'Amen' and the room was engulfed in a huge ball of fire. The 65-year-old Brown said she is blessed to be alive. Firefighters said its likely she was hit by a bolt of lightning that apparently struck outside and traveled into the house yesterday afternoon. She was found lying on the floor by her 14-year-old granddaughter. Fire officials think the lightning likely struck across the street from the couple's home and traveled into the house through a water line. The lightning continued into the couple's backyard and ripped open a small trench. A family member said he will no longer assume it is safe to be indoors during a lightning strike. Dime-sized hail and wind gusts of up to 45 miles-per-hour moved across coastal Baldwin County. As much as three inches of rain fell in some areas in three hours. -wsbtv

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Xenophilia » Blog Archive » Direct lightning strike melts gold cross pendant, girl survives said...

[...] The last comment where a doctor says “most [people hit by lightning] develop telepathic or psychic abilities” makes me raise a skeptical eyebrow, but the picture seems convincing. If true, it is amazing. I’m sure there is no connection with other stories like this and this. Freaky. The city checks out as real. “A 16-year-old girl has survived a direct lightning strike. The gold cross pendant on a chain melted and evaporated from the girl?s neck. Marina Motygina from Ekaterinburg in Russia?s Urals went bathing with her friend Anya. She had just got out of water when a thunderstorm broke out, the Komsomolskaya Pravda daily reports. ” - mosnews [...]