I nearly just got hit by lightning

[kaliha]

No really. I actually nearly did.

Driving home, minding my own business, thundercloud up above rumbling ominously. Suddenly about sixty or seventy foot in front of me lightning hit the road (m'Dad reckons it hit a drain cover). Had I left work 10 or 15 seconds earlier it would have been a direct hit!

I am somewhat freaked out by it. (Yes I know being in a car is the safest place to be in a thunderstorm but my no claims discount would have been decimated.)

I rung His Lordship and my dad when I got in and they both said "Did you take a picture of it?" erm, no.

I've got home and it's clear blue sky and sunny. But over towards work it's just a mass of black.

Comments

[dune-drd.livejournal.com]

Whoa, that's scary. Mind you, my plane was once hit by lightning and nothing happened, so I guess the car would've been all right, too

[--kali--.livejournal.com]

It was very loud.

I tried to email you but it's coming back as undeliverable so I'm pm-ing you via LJ the meet-up stuff.

[dune-drd.livejournal.com]

Got it now, and that sounds like a plan! Though I'd have to get something to sign before the stage-door stalking... Will be arriving friday around 3pm, will try to catch up with all of you then!

[--kali--.livejournal.com]

Don't forget to bring an umbrella. The weather (as evidenced above) has not been pleasant so far this week.

[dune-drd.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid to bring one in case I jinx it... but as far as things look, I'll need to exit my country, too. Oh, please not another start/landing in a thunderstorm??

[gamiila.livejournal.com]

Eeeek! How scary! Glad you're okay...though you really ought to have taken a picture...;-)

[--kali--.livejournal.com]

I know. If only my camera hadn't been at home. Woes.

[lm-jillybean.livejournal.com]

How very practical of them!

(Same thing happened to me once, I was walking home from primary school and lightning hit a drain cover about ten metres in front of me. Scared the shit out of me, I even walked around the houses to avoid the path)

[--kali--.livejournal.com]

God, that's even closer that my lightning was. I would have died of fright on the spot if that had happened to me. You Scottish types are well hard!

[doylefan22.livejournal.com]

Have you angered any deities lately?

[--kali--.livejournal.com]

I don't think so. *is worried* Probably best if you don't stand too close to me when we're outside over the weekend.

[doylefan22.livejournal.com]

You did say it was over towards work though and your previous posts have indicated there may be a concentrated mass of pure evil there.

I'm just saying...

[alawston.livejournal.com]

Yikes, thank God you're OK!

[--kali--.livejournal.com]

If I'd been hit I could have got magical lightning powers like that kid in that S1 X-Files episode.

[slartibartfast.livejournal.com]

Wow. :O That would have killed me out of sheer terror.

[--kali--.livejournal.com]

I very nearly did! I was all shaky from it for ages.

[steviesun.livejournal.com]

Glad you're alright. And not just because you've got the tickets for saturday. Must have been real scary, cup of tea time methinks!

[--kali--.livejournal.com]

That was actually the thought going through my head "if I end up in the river now how are the others going to get hold of His Lordship to get the tickets?"

[kaffy_r]

As long as you're not burning (at the center of time or anywhere else) then you've won the battle of Human vs. The Universe, at least this time. Boy, do I understand the shock value, though. Have a cuppa and relax as much as you're able to.

[khallandra.livejournal.com]

Scary but cool. When lightening strikes anywhere near you it is scary. Apparently my friend got hit once but he's one of the 'and walked away' types.

[glitteraddict89.livejournal.com]

That's rather epic (and scary!).
Lolz at the men-folk.

[elen-ancalima.livejournal.com]

Ouch! Glad you're ok - that sounds fairly scary :-/