Woman Struck by Lightning

[kellyhound]

A woman who filmed the moment she was hit by lightning has spoken of her terror as the strike passed through her body.

Jessica Lynch can be heard screaming in fear after the lightning blew a hole in the ground just feet from where she was recording, in astonishing footage posted on the internet.

Mrs Lynch, 33, says an arc from the lightning struck her on her left thumb, before passing up her arm, across her back and out the other arm. Arcs are electric currents that flow through the air, similar to lightning itself.

"It scared the shit out of me," she told theliberalblogger.com website.

"I lost immediate memory of what was happening, though. I was very confused, and didn't know I even took video until awhile later.

"My breathing was rapid and short like hiccups for a few minutes, and my left arm flopped around like a fish out of water for an hour or so."

The artist and illustrator was taken to hospital but, remarkably, was unhurt.

Mrs Lynch was filming the storm out of her second-floor window in Guemes Island, Washington earlier this month when the lightning struck.

She says that previous strikes had been so far in the distance that she did not believe she was putting herself in danger.

"I am well aware that it is completely stupid to hold onto a metal railing and hang out of a window filming in a lightning storm," she said, adding that she would take more care when filming thunderstorms in the future.

Mrs Lynch posted the clip on theliberalblogger.com, describing it as the "unedited screaming version".

[chris]

damn, that's creepy..

[NurseBettie]

I hope she plays the lotto, she is one lucky bitch!