SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) -A lightning strike is being blamed for damage to a house in Sarasota. Fire crews were called to the house on Wood Hollow Ct for reports of an attic fire.
The strike sent pieces of the roof and ceiling to the bottom floors of the home. ABC7 viewer Matthew St. Aubin witnessed the lightning hitting the home and sent photos from inside after crews arrived on scene. Debris from the strike also landed on the home’s patio.
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Lightning hit a neighbor's chimney, years ago. It blew bricks out of their fireplace in the basement.
ReplyDeleteI lived through a *close* lightning strike one night when I was a teenager. It hit a large pine that was all of 6’ outside my bedroom window. In spite of closed blinds and a pull-down shade - it lit up the inside of my room like a high wattage photoflash. My ears were ringing for hours. In the light of day I found a newly dead tree surrounded by the bark that had been blown off when the water in the sap was turned nearly instantly into steam. Killed it dead, it did.
ReplyDeleteLeft quite an impression on me. 😉