Test pilot 1 said..
With electrical industry it is mandatory for all electric shocks, you go to hospital for 24 hrs observation, I've been 3 times
For electrical industry or lightning strikes?
Anyway, that's not a lightning strike, this is a lightning strike!
When I was about 15 I was walking on the veranda of the family home when lightning struck me pretty much directly. I remember hearing the thunder before seeing the flash so it must have been close - the thunder registered in my brain first even though it couldn't have happened first. Then it felt like was hit with a baseball bat in the chest and another one in each knee and elbow. Next thing I knew I was lying on the ground feeling a bit tender, but I hadn't blacked out. First thing I thought was that if I'd been hit under the shelter of the roof then potentially everyone in the house had been, so I jumped up to go and check on my younger sisters who were inside the house proper. No-one else had been hit.
That house was the highest house on the tallest hill in the shire. We got a lot of lightning strikes. I got shocked by it twice more while I lived there, once having my hand on the kitchen tap when lightning struck the ground outside, once standing in bare feet on wet tiles when it struck.
