Anybody here ever been struck, or been close to being struck by lightning?
When I was 13, I was watching a thunderstorm out my front window. I saw lightning hit a phone pole a few blocks away, and at the same time, I thought to myself "why does it feel like i'm falling backwards?" I was on the floor for a few seconds before I got up, when I felt my brother searching for a pulse. He told me that a spark jumped from the radiator to my knee. I remember not being able to move my legs to keep myself from falling. I wasn't scared until after I knew what happened. I'm just glad that it wasn't full force.
