10 Scariest Lightning Strikes Caught On Camera

[@ostlandr]

Granddad used to say "Lightning never strikes twice in the same place- because the same place isn't there any more."

[@zabidi59]

Do like to share your comment please.

[@GunToting]

Wise Man

[@justmeagain-xp2mw]

Great way to look at it! You can never assume you are safe!

[@THENATURETV-US]

Absolutely mind-blowing! 🌌 Each mystery left me in awe and eager to learn more. The visuals are stunning, and the explanations are both intriguing and easy to understand. If you're fascinated by the unknown and love diving into the world's greatest enigmas, this video is a must-watch! Which mystery did you find the most captivating? 🤔✨ #Science

[@chrismayer3919]

He might be right (and yet there ARE people hit by lightning who lived to tell about it…)

[@xandermansmom1]

My mom left the window open for a cool breeze. A lightning bolt snaked through the window, across the living room, and struck our little tv with rabbit ears. I was watching Beverly Hillbillies. It was very startling, but as a child, I quickly forgot the fear and was sad I didn’t get to finish watching the show because it broke our tv.

[@forceawakens4449]

damn, i would have paid to see a recording of that if it existed

[@SirKolass]

The tv's cable led the lightning to the ground

[@wendellhanley6210]

I’m glad no one was hurt

[@judyproffitt5708]

My Dad told the story of (when he was a boy) a lightning bolt that came through an open 3rd story window in an old wooden tenement house and struck a Catholic St. Christopher’s medal that was on a table, setting the room on fire! Lesson learned: stay away from windows during thunderstorms!

[@darkstarmoonshadow]

Dang that's horrible

[@wsbill14224]

Over 40 years ago I was delivering pizza in a 1964 Malibu. It was pouring rain and there was a huge flash of lightning that lit up everything and a giant boom of thunder at the same time. My car went completely dead at that moment. I stopped at the curb and waited a few minutes for the rain to let up, then I grabbed my crescent wrench and screwdriver, popped the hood and took a look. I snugged up my battery terminals and the car started right up. No computer to roast in a 64.

[@Hunter225]

My roommate, and I spent almost a month in the hospital, because of lighting. We were hit standing in our living room, with the back glass doors open. Our apartment, at the time, small. Where we were, was 1 foot from the doors. We were just a unlucky, and lucky at the same time. Both of us survived, lucky

[@magistrumartium]

Were you alone or were other people there to help you? I wonder if your heart stopped and you got CPR. Do tell.

[@Hunter225]

@@magistrumartium Our next door neighbor was a firefighter medic. I had pulled the phone down when I fell. I woke up on the floor next to my roommate. I stayed awake to call emergency, and remember the neighbor came in. He kept us alive apparently. I was in ICU for 2 weeks, and moved out for another 3 weeks. My roommate was in ICU for A3 weeks, and in the hospital 1week longer than me. I get migraines, my hands shake all the time, and nerve damage.

[@Hunter225]

@@magistrumartium I was with my then, roommate. We were standing by our back doors watching the storm. After it happened, I woke up on the floor, and had knocked the phone off, so I was able to call emergency. My next door neighbor was a firefighter medic, and I remember seeing him come in, but nothing else until I woke up in the hospital. They told me my heart stopped 3 times. I was luckier than my roommate. I was in ICU for 2 weeks, and moved out of ICU, I was there for another 3weeks. My roommate was in the ICU for, and in the hospital a week longer than me. Lucky out neighbors was home, he heard the boom, and had come over to check on us, right after that happened. He saved our lives.

[@bobwilson758]

Sorry to hear that you suffer from tremors - Damn …. I know what that part is like . Only that part ! We thank God You two are alive ! Wow - I live in Florida / Lightning capital - Speaking of lightning , it is coming in from the west right now . God has blessed you ! Gotta run !

[@ex-navyspook]

Yikes! I've had near-misses (for which I'm incredibly thankful), but your strike is a whole different level. I'm sorry the lightning messed with your electrical impulses (nerve damage) and caused migraines, and never had to spent that long in the hospital. I've just got migraines from my near-misses (yes, as in multiple...I hate lightning storms)

[@LITTLE1994]

As much as I study severe weather all my life, being struck by lightning is one of my biggest fears, due to how unpredictable and dangerous storms are. I still don't understand how people survive being hit by a million volts packing 50,000'F temperature.

[@DacLMK]

I was at a risk being hit by lightning almost a week ago when a powerful storm caught us when we descended from a mountain hiking. Thankfully it never did. God spared us.

[@anitacraighead7038]

I don't understand how many survive multiple strikes....I have and suffer. Not the only one either¡!!

[@harperwilson8052]

@@anitacraighead7038 just depends on how much of a conductor you are in the strike. been struck twice. both times i was only a part of the ckt. I don't think God will let me live on the next one (if there is a "next one")

[@derikroy5]

​@@DacLMKI'm glad you were spared too! That must be terrifying, being in an intense lightning storm with nowhere to hide 😳

[@jewellanncrislip2078]

​@derikroy5 I've had worse I've actually been through a tornado warning thank God it didn't happen 😅

[@plushmation61]

Zeus needs to be careful next time

[@oliverscratch]

In 1973 I was aboard a Lockheed L-188 Electra flying over the Andes Mountains in Ecuador when the plane was struck by lightning. There was no damage, but there was a lot of screaming.

[@allenmyers8568]

While the lightning appears to go from the cloud to grown, a small bolt comes from the ground and makes a connection with that from the cloud.

[@ghomerhust]

yes, the original connection goes up to the clouds, then the main discharge drops back down through that path

[@navneetpandit7299]

It's the counter polarization streamer Atmospheric scientist call it the split- stepped leader.

[@jongeduard]

Also worth to note that during by far the largest part of the path, the lightning is finding the path of the least resistance through just the air itself. Only very close to the ground the lightning tends to aim for higher points. Which also explains why it takes the shape of so many curves and zigzags, and not a straight line.

[@duudsuufd]

@@jongeduard Tents are dangerous because the poles built up static electricity, which attracts the lightning. So even in the mountains your tent can get struck. If the alu rods make contact with the soil (no static electricity), and there are higher objects around you you're probably safe.

[@jongeduard]

@@duudsuufd Actually inside the tent they where kind of safe and therefore still alive, because the construction with the tent poles works basically like a Faraday cage, even if it is not a perfect one.

[@DacLMK]

Lighting strikes are no joke. Last friday on the 7th of July, we had a team-building from work to climb a mountain in the north-west part of my country (N.Macedonia). Everything went well on the climbing, but mid-way when we were descending, a powerful storm caught us,. We had nowhere for shelter on the way, so we had to walk down the mountain through the storm. We were at the risk of a lighting to strike us, but thankfully it never did. There were some close calls when I saw a flash, and a boom sound a second or two later. It was scary, and on my mind on the whole way I was worried if a lighting will strike me or the other colleagues. That's an experience I'll never forget. I didn't record any footage unfortunately, since I didn't want to risk my phone or the inside of my backpack getting wet.

[@filippajohansson9027]

8jg🎉

[@charlesdobbs4570]

In 78 I was in the 8th grade. Mom was driving to pick up a brother after a track meet. This Bolt hit a Huge Tree we were driving by at about 5 mph. I will never forget it.

[@richardbeckenbaugh1805]

When I was in kindergarten I was in orthopedic braces and on crutches. The school bus let us off about a quarter mile from home. One day it was raining really bad and my friend flip and I stopped to shelter under a big tree. The tree got hit by lightning. It came out of the bark, ran down my left brace and into the ground. My friend shit his pants. I’ll always remember that day. Not for getting hit by lightning but for the fact that my friend shit his pants. When I told my parents what had happened, they didn’t believe me until they looked at the brace. There was a small melted spot where the lightning went in and a small melted spot where the lightning came out and went to ground.

[@cynthiajohnson7581]

😂 OH gosh! I'm laying in bed and reading this to my husband and we're both laughing like fools. I'm sorry you got hit by lightning, but when you said your friend shit his pants we both lost it. Thanks for sharing your story.

[@csc7225]

Years ago, my house was struck by lightning while I was on vacation. It took out the air conditioner, the tv in the den (but not its cable box), the cable box in a bedroom (but not its tv), the internal speakers on the imac (luckily, didn't obliterate the computer as this was before the cloud and everything was recoverable), and blew apart the house alarm siren in the attic. It literally exploded into tiny pieces. The insurance adjuster said he had never seen that much damage without the house burning down (although I don't know how many lightning strikes he had ever surveyed). I'm so thankful no one was at home when it happened. Can't imagine how terrifying it would have been.

[@426F6F]

I had lightning strike right in front of me when I was younger. My hearing and sight were messed up for a few seconds afterward! You can actually feel the charge in the air when you're in the area it's about to strike.

[@michaelbrinks8089]

Here's a weird one, a lightning ⚡ bolt came out of the sky directly above my buddy but instead of hitting him. The bolt for some reason split into two about 10 feet above his head and the 2 strikes landed on each side of him leaving him uninjured.

[@426F6F]

@@michaelbrinks8089 he must have been too negative then 😆

[@Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman]

​@@426F6F lol

[@patmccoy8758]

This reminds me of what happened at Gallaudet University. During a class, lightning struck a tree right outside the window. The resulting explosion was so loud that the most profoundly Deaf student heard it!

[@libertylost8286]

I have been struck by lightning. I was at an air show. My friends and I ran to the port-a-potties and hid until the rain stopped. It stunk so bad I left as soon as the storm passed. I was using an umbrella. I didn’t see anything, but some guy yelled out that I was hit. All I know was my umbrella yet flying out of my hand and my thumb went numb. I heard the crack. I didn’t realize I was hit. About two years later my back started hurting and I was diagnosed with Syringomyelia. It is a vertical hole in the spinal cord. I am less than 1% that doesn’t know the cause of it. I think that lightning strike did it, but it didn’t start bothering me right away. Just a guess, but I was lucky I didn’t die that day.

[@ChrisJones555.]

Wow, that is a close call. For sure, I hope that it doesn't cause you too much trouble and there is something that can be done to stop it causing you any bother. Stay safe 🙏

[@lyndsayms]

Oh wow 😮

[@darktrooper2099]

*Which is EXACTLY the reason why I ONLY have ever went to indoor events my whole life. Have known plenty of people & friends of friends that either have been hit or come close to it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!* 😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔....

[@tappajaav]

@@darktrooper2099 Lightning striking someone taking regular safety precautions is EXTREMELY unlikely. Just because it has happened to someone doesn't mean it's going to happen to you as well

[@boognish999]

I think you're delusional

[@mayday6916]

I was at a camp when I was about twelve, and one afternoon there came a thunderstorm. Me and some other children had a great view over a forested area from the stairs of the old mansion where we were staying. There were magnificent flashes of lightning with many "branches" spreading across the sky. Then came a very powerful one, like a thick rope that went straight down, and when it reached the ground I was temporarily dazzled, as if I had got the flash of a camera in front of my eyes. A very loud thunder was heard. When I could see clearly again a white dot had appeared in the green carpet of the distant forest. It hadn't been there before. I realized that the lightning had hit a tall pine tree and, in less than a second, peeled it - branches, bark and everything - and only the white wood under the bark was left. I will never forget it.

[@UNIVERSITY_LIGHTS_DURHAM]

That was what they call a positive bolt.

[@camilaalmiron5588]

Neat

[@kolaiktomi]

Lightning struck about 10 feet away from me and flung me about 20 feet. It felt like a bad sunburn and left some really cool burn patterns on my skin, kind of like trees or roots. I'm still partially blind in my left eye but the initial strike didn't hurt all that bad. I've felt worse wiring houses with unexpected live lines. The recovery was a little challenging, but not painful, just annoying retraining my left leg to work after like a couple months of rehab. I died for 7 minutes and it wasn't all that bad. Best sleep I had in years prior. I know others have died for good or were more severely injured, but in my experience, I'm still only afraid of the winds that the tornado produced and flattened my farm. Being struck or nearly struck didn't suck as much as losing everything to wind damage from an F3.

[@lyndsayms]

Wow - so glad you’re okay!

[@moriartybayts]

"I died for 7 minutes and it wasn't all that bad...didn't suck as much as " BRO YOU DIED! lol I mean, they say life sucks so....I guess, but...BRO YOU DIED.

[@kolaiktomi]

@@moriartybayts Yeah, I was dead. I'm Oglala Lakota and a Marine, it's no big deal to me, just sharing my experience. Being dead was like a dreamless deep sleep then being shocked back to life and feeling like you've held your breath too long. It was weird, but nice, oddly enough. Don't get me wrong, I'm prepared to die again but have less anxiety about it. I just have to make sure they see my DNR card next time.

[@michaelbrinks8089]

​@@kolaiktomiI almost choked to death once. I wasn't legally dead but when I passed out. I met the grim reaper who was rushing towards me in the form of a large black mass that was made of nothingness on the inside. I had about a 20 second conversation with him that was condensed into a split second. At first I was freaking out because I thought the black mass was there to pull me into hell.I got mad and started asking God why I was being sent to hell. Explaining I've never hurt anyone, etc...The second the black mass sensed my fear. He explained he wasn't evil nor good & simply there to do his job & it wasn't up to him to determine where I go. When I had blacked out I rolled out of bed and somehow cleared my windpipe when I hit the floor. It made believe there is an afterlife. I guess maybe the people who actually die, forget they met the grim reaper once they're actually dead. 🤷‍♂️

[@jewellanncrislip2078]

One time during a thunderstorm, I saw a lightning bolt pause infrint of my house for a millisecond. Another time, u know, during that one type of thunderstorm, I think it was called supercell. idk, but the lightning turned purple it scared me alot let me know if it was a supercell or a normal one

[@20vtechnik]

I was in a forest in Tionesta PA in the USA in 1999. It was storming and a lighting bolt struck a tree roughly 400 yards from where we were. All the hairs on my body stood on edge and my ears were ringing. The tree imploded and was briefly on fire. It was insane. It physically rattled me and we (I was with two other people) had a moment of pure panic. It was intense.

[@billwilliams7970]

I had a lightening strike whilst piloting a PC-12 into Saskatoon several years back. Heard the bang, the instruments went a little wonky for a moment and then nothing. Wasn't until we landed and I was able to take a look and notices an 8" hole through the horizontal stabilizer!! Wild stuff!

[@geneburnett7576]

I was standing in the doorway of myonle home and saw a ball of lightning hit a small tree in the yard owasso glad to have seen that

[@GLING17]

I was never really scared of lightning until it came inside my home about 12 years ago. We had a really bad storm and a lightning bolt shot down the chimney into my house and it was blue. I never knew that before! A building on the next street was also hit and it blew up their chimney. Very scary stuff! Now I am terrified of lightning.

[@darkstarmoonshadow]

I am 34 and thunderstorms make me nervous with high anxiety. Note I never had and experience like yours

[@sherriianiro747]

Several years ago had window open in summer at night - thunderstorm rolled in. I couldn't sleep from the noise & could see my neighbors roof from my bed. All of a sudden lightning hit their chimney & many bricks crumbled down - the boom was so strong and loud my floor shook. That really instilled in me how unpredictable and powerful lightning can be.

[@tazmod7272]

We were working in the forest in eastern Oregon. We had just drove up to a place we were going to work in when lightning struck a big ponderosa pine tree about a hundred feet from our truck. The lightning blew out a chunk of the trunk and traveled down to the ground. When we figured it was safe we walked over to the tree and checked for any smoldering material. A lot of forest fires are caused by lightning strikes.

[@julianaylor4351]

I saw a local street tree, damaged like that, once.

[@suilujajerap7501]

Did you film it? Where on youtube, you know. 😂

[@Youcanttouchmyhandle]

RIP❤❤️‍🔥 🌏💛Healing to all from Australia kzbin.info/www/bejne/jp7ddaaMmNdmbpY Its amazing what our defence forces can achieve when used to save.

[@tazmod7272]

@@suilujajerap7501 : No. it was in the 80’s. I don’t remember even having my camera with me.

[@Scottocaster6668]

Have you or the crew ever encounter Sasquatch??

[@leeandramurphy5903]

I was sitting in my room one night during a nasty storm outisde. The lightning struck the ground in my backyard and it was so close until I could feel the heat on my face and it left a permanant indent where it struck.

[@denverdubois5835]

My favorite lightning strike on video is still the one from Quebec. It strikes a huge tree by a neighboring home, and such a big portion of the tree falls that it seriously damages the home. Meanwhile all the rambunctious French speaking dudes hanging out with the person filming immediately start swearing in English. It's both funny and scary.

[@julianaylor4351]

When a closed vehicle is struck by lightning, it becomes a Faraday Cage, conducting the electricity....I was in a London bus once, on a road bridge, when it was struck....the windows and body buzzed....most of my fellow passengers didn't know what happened....but I did, I was stunned...the driver did too, he swore. Back in the 1990s I had to call the fire brigade, when loose wires in a neighbour's gutter, were struck by lightning from a local supercell storm, which also did other damage. Their roof caught fire....luckily they were abroad, but they came home to a lost roof....they later rebuilt with the insurance, but the smell of the burning roof is still something I remember.

[@JadianRadiator]

Back when me and my mother had just moved in, lightning struck just a few feet outside the kitchen window behind the sink. I was at the kitchen sink when it happened.

[@Beecher_Dikov]

I was sitting at a stop light when lightening hit a tree on the other side of the intersection. It was night and I happened to be looking in the direction of the tree. The flash blinded me for a minute or more.

[@darkstarmoonshadow]

Sounds like the time my step father and I where entering Huston Tx during a storm we too where at a stop light and just before it turned green a bolt hit the ground 6ft infront of us. I jumped so hard I nearly hit the roof of his truck, the sound was louder than enything ive ever witnessed. (It was louder than military jets)

[@williamallencrowder361]

I have been in two houses when they were hit by lightning, 2 cars, and had lightning hit within 50’ of me outdoors. I find lightning to be fascinating

[@Rikki-Tikki-Tavi]

🤯🤯

[@williamallencrowder361]

@@Rikki-Tikki-Tavi My Great Grandfather was hit and killed by lightning in 1921

[@Rikki-Tikki-Tavi]

@@williamallencrowder361 Oh wow! Fascinating, but scary. I wonder if a predilection to strikes somehow runs in your family?!

[@williamallencrowder361]

@@Rikki-Tikki-Tavi Ido not know, but it very well could

[@wideyxyz2271]

It certainly is fascinated by you!

[@nancyberry1039]

Lightning used to fascinate me as a kid, but I became frightened of them in my early 20's from two separate incidents. The first was in Atlantic City, NJ. I was at my in-law's condo just a block up from the beach. The building sat on the corner of the main street & consisted of 4 units (2 upstairs & 2 downstairs) with a small parking area in front. We were in one of the units on the street level. It was early morning (around 6 am) & everyone was still in bed. I was asleep on the pull out sofa in the living room, very close to the window. A lightning strike hit the street outside, only a few yards away from the parking lot. It was the loudest crack-boom I've ever heard in my life. i thought something blew up in one of the units. It shook the entire building, windows almost blew out, & every car alarms was going off at once. I've never been jolted (no pun intended) awake like that before or since & this was in the late 1980's. The 2nd incident happened a few years later. I was traveling back from Germany on a flight when our plane was hit by a lightning bolt. Even though everyone was fine, the plane had to make a quick emergency landing in Nova Scotia before continuing onto to Philadelphia airport. The noise within the cabin was so loud, like a bomb went off & freaked everyone out - babies, kids, even a few adults were crying. The plane shook so hard, I thought for sure we were going to take a nose dive right into the Atlantic Ocean. Since then if there is a storm approaching, I avoid going out anywhere & if I'm already outside, I run immediately back inside or pull my car over & go into a near by open business or building. There is no way I will drive during a thunder/lightning storm. I'm too chicken now!

[@michaelbrinks8089]

Same, as a kid I was never scared of storms until too many close calls with tornados and lightning strikes. At work once a tornado was about 100 yards away from hitting our building. We watched the funnel cloud 🌪 going by in the field next to us. Carrying debris high up in the sky. We could see pieces/sheets of metal rooftop & boards spinning around a couple hundred feet up in the air. Couple other times tornados missed me by a few miles along with several lightning 🌩 strikes close across the street. Makes me take precautions now. Guy I worked with lost his thumb 👍 in one tornado that touched down near me. He was running into his basement & a piece of flying debris hit his thumb when he was at the doorway going into the basement. The tornado destroyed the house he was renting. He was stuck in basement for hours with his thumb missing and bleeding before help came.

[@Peabody388]

That must have been harrowing 😮

[@carlschnier4089]

We were watching the Beverley Hillbillies on TV, Jethro Bodine was about to take off in his homemade rocket. A storm was brewing outside, just as Jethro’s countdown got to zero, a lightning bolt struck our rooftop TV antenna. The TV blew up and we were awestruck ! What a show, luckily our homeowners insurance covered the cost of a new TV !😅

[@kbboy101]

The person at 8.44 has an incredible reaction time. Lightning travels at 300,000 kmph but this guy was able to shake the video even faster.

[@barbaracataldo566]

To the family whose house was hit by lightning, sometimes insurance companies don't cover "acts of God." Although I wouldn't think it was, the insurance company might.🤔

[@kings7man]

or could do a jimmy connolly the man who sued god

[@ajjames8479]

I live in Norman Oklahoma, we get hail storms, tornadoes, ice storms, but the scariest is the lightning storms. I've personally been to close to being struck at least four times, I've seen lightning do some pretty weird stuff. Cool video.

[@meowsthree]

Toby’s town!

[@feeberizer]

The fish may not get killed, but I bet they'd be deaf for awhile! 😂

[@ghomerhust]

WHAT?

[@voutsider190]

Lol

[@feeberizer]

@@lh3428 Telling your family and friends "You're never gonna believe how many fish we caught!" 😉

[@walterengler5709]

We were in a college dorm during a storm when there was a huge sound and flash outside. It was night and of course power went out. The brave ones tried looking outside but nothing could be seen. Once the storm passed and morning came (as power was being restored), the tree the lighting struck was located. It had snake over and around the tree, blowing off the bark around it. So no dramatic tree explosion like these. But seeing a slice of bark around the trees from top to bottom stripped off was amazing.

[@feraltaco4783]

That tree vaporizing was _so cool._

[@bdt2002gaming]

However many years ago this was I’m not sure, but we had one at our house that I kid you not couldn’t have been more than 50 yards away from my bedroom window. I can pinpoint the exact spot it happened at.

[@ILSRWY4]

Two facts: 1) Lightning doesn't go down as stated in the video. The energy traves from ground up, the light is what travels down so it appears the bolt goes down. 2) Lightning wouldn't have made that glider "spiral out of control." Lightning does very little to aircraft since the airplane is not touching the ground. 90 percent of the time the energy travels around the plane's airframe harmlessly. if the airplane has electronics, sometimes there might be electrical failure but that very rare. And even rarer, airframe structual damage, but that is very very rare, less than 1 percent of the time.

[@chillvibes3031]

Me and my cousin was at church and when the service was over, we went outside to sit on the porch .. we saw a HUGE lightning strike, it was so close I swear I thought we got hit .. we ran inside so fast

[@josephjohnson5757]

Funny I'm watching this during a severe thunderstorm ⛈️😅

[@sebastianstyles9750]

There’s a special place in hell for all the people who immediately ask “DiD yOu GeT tHaT oN CaMeRa!!” after seeing a near death experience.

[@newshodgepodge6329]

Lightning struck our house when I was a teenager. It didn't set it on fire but it did peel off a chunk of the foil finish wallpaper near where the wall met the ceiling in one of the upstairs bathrooms. It also fused the control circuits in the motherboard of our alarm system. That thing rang for hours until a repair technician finally showed up at about 10:00 that night. It took that long because people all over the service area were in the same boat we were in. It was weird because you would think a storm that bad would've knocked out power in the area too. We didn't even know that the house took a direct hit until after the alarm finally got fixed and we were all on our way to bed for the night. That was when I found the piece of wallpaper laying on the bathroom floor. Thankfully nobody was in there when the lightning struck.

[@TheJf89]

Happy Saturday everyone! Have a safe and wonderful 🌙

[@logan84067]

Thank you for your content underworld, Your content makes my day and it makes me smile, I have never had this much fun watching a youtube channel, I have had severe depression and you are making it better. Thanks man! - AtlasW

[@peterburi2727]

Least resistance. During a high precipitation rain event, I was recording it for my wife who likes the rain sound to help her sleep. While I was recording and during the storm there was no thunder just heavy rain. As I ventured towards the window there was a very loud fiery strike directly across the street. My neighborhood is surrounded by very large mature trees. in the morning I went out to see what had gotten struck. The victim was a dead tree no more that 15 feet tall. It turned out to be a very expensive strike. Due to the proximity of my cable line that strike destroyed my two week old hand built desktop computer, my cable modem, my monitor and speakers system. It is always the path of least resistance.

[@weatherboi]

interesting to note that about 44 lightning stikes hit the earth each second, and that is only 20% of all lighting bolts, the other 80% are cloud to cloud.

[@stevenbaer5999]

Christmas tree just disintegrated to almost nothing, crumbled

[@ghomerhust]

i love seeing in the morocco one that tons of people immediately ran out and started helping the people in the car. in america, the only people showing up would IGNORE the people and would be filming because "likes" are more important than human life.

[@MichaelCorwell]

SO GOOD!!!!!! 😮❤

[@deano187x]

@08:00 was probably a fire extinguisher in the boot which ignited! Or it was the air bags which caused the smoke! Scary stuff 😮 Edit: Not ignited, I meant exploded. How can a fire extinguisher ignite 🙈 DUHHH kinda defeats the object 😅

[@tylerashworth5217]

Once I was at my grandmas house with the glass door shut and the wood door open and I was standing about 10 feet away from the door and a tree 20 feet from the door was struck and obliterated btw that tree was about 50ft tall and was soon cut down after the strike due to safety concerns and I was scared to death by that lightning.

[@vicentenegrete4765]

That tent made a nice Faraday cage.

[@rhrh2025]

I once saw a golfer get hit by lightning. He was carrying an umbrella, and was about 100 yards away! I read in the paper the next day that he didn't make it. Lightning struck the road, about 10 feet in front of the car I was driving, back in the 80s. A bolt shot up from the ground, and met a bolt coming from above. They connected about 10 feet off the ground. I saw the negative image in my eyes, for about 30 minutes. It was loud too!

[@courtneyksf]

That was cool. The #10: the strike hit the frame tie and followed the carbon fiber stays.

[@andriaduncan5032]

Holy cow! Monday we had one of those quick sound-and-fury and 5 minutes of the bottom falling out, and just after it started, there was the biggest crack of thunder I've ever heard in my LIFE -- it sounded like an explosive! And then right after, I hear a swish-boom from the front yard -- the damn lightening struck our 85 ft maple tree, and sliced about a quarter of it off! Fortunately, it didn't hit any vehicles nor power lines, nor was it blocking more than maybe 5ft of the road, and it didn't even destroy the mailbox, just buried it in green leaves! Of course my husband is still removing a quarter of a freaking humongous maple tree from our front yard. Maybe we can sell it for firewood!

[@BillMulholland1]

Iv been close to lighting twice in my life. Scared the hell out of me.

[@johnnyj540]

Getting something on video doesn't count unless you're holding your phone sideways.

[@robdave1974]

Cars and wet tents act like a faraday cage and route the current around you to the ground.

[@hiramabiff885]

I had a lake home in Marietta, GA. Working in my basement office a lighting bolt hit a 200 year old oak tree in my next door neighbor's front yard. I am a combat vet and it sounded like the impact of a 155mm howitzer round and it knocked me out of my chair. I ran out the front door and the massive oak was obliterated with tree debris scattered in a 75 yard radius.

[@norriskays806]

Hey! Blackpool here! ❤ We had a sandstorm up sewfront today! ❤❤

[@MikeV8652]

Once I was at a window in my house watching a storm outside, when I saw lightning strike my car. It came down a large oak tree, jumped to the tin roof of my car shed, then to the car's antenna, and through the car to the ground. The plastic bezel at the base of the antenna was melted, and all of the car's electronics were fried. There was no other damage, but I had to replace the car. I'd cancelled my comprehensive insurance the week before. ⚡ ☹

[@LuvLight44]

The Ancestors on Lake Dora ain’t playing🤣💯👏🏾

[@glennkrieger]

One small correction. Cloud-to-ground lightning comes from the sky down, but the part you see (which is most of the bolt of lightning) comes from the ground up. This wasn't always known. The cloud starts the bolt, but the actual intense bright branching strike (the bolt itself) occurs when the ground detects that first part in the clouds then shoots up quickly to meet the cloud. Crazy but true.

[@sonyaking8049]

Lived in Florida and had lightning strikes everywhere. Trees in the yard, rooftops, bolts flashing through the house, bangs going off next to you. You would see a community swimming pool evacuated in seconds. Little kids know to get home if it's raining.

[@X-WingPilot777]

Lightning said "Hey look! A civilian airliner!"

[@alanatolstad4824]

A tree in the small town we lived in in North Dakota in the 50's was struck, & it was exciting to drive over to see it the next morning!---There are trees in the Tahoe Basin that have been struck & survived. A 'bandaid' of concrete helps stabilize the 'wound' at the base!

[@ConcededGlue182]

What about minivans? God forbid I ever get struck by lightning but is a minivan vulnerable to lightning strikes?

[@sibertiger1970]

Very fitting for me to watch this today. We have been struck by multiple thunder storms today, going from about 4am to currently 4pm

[@PTS328]

Lightning strikes might be the coolest, yet most intimidaring things of nature! Truly electrifying!

[@jarrettowens6073]

I remember my parents and I have a ranch near Belleville, one time some lightning struck a tree and knocked half the tree off! We weren't there when it happened but we saw the aftermath, and saw the scorch mark of the lightning that hit it. It was crazy.

[@jadalynnn2583]

Belleville Michigan?

[@jarrettowens6073]

@@jadalynnn2583 I meant to say Beeville. Stupid auto correct. It's a town in Texas.

[@JohnPennock-d3y]

WOW, I'm always a bit scared of lightning, now I know why! John P.

[@speedskater1947]

There's a documentary of a scientist that set up a bunch of lightning rods planted in the ground in a lightning prone area with high speed film observation. The result was contrary to popular belief, lightning actually travels upward from the ground skyward. In the last clip of this presentation that shows the plane being struck you can actually notice the arch coming from below through the plane then continuing upward. As a retired 40 years heavy equipment mechanic I always thought of DC current path as "goes to ground", but after taking several advanced courses in electronic diagnostics I learned that current travels from the negative to the positive, and as the narrater explained in this video the clouds are positively charged.

[@Gail1Marie]

I could never wrap my head around the concept of the "holes"--rather than the electrons--moving in semiconductors. I just saw a show recently that stated meteorologists had established that there are both positive and negative lightning strokes. If I recall correctly, branching lightning is positive but strong single strikes are negative.

[@Shuffler703]

My Grandfather's car was struck while he was sitting at a red light. He was ok but the cars electrical was burned up. The tires did not pop, but they turned a light gray.

[@sicilypitts7333]

Lightening is no joke! I lived in an apartment and it struck the building next to me! Eight units were totally destroyed and another eight had smoke and water damage. I was so lucky and grateful it didn't spread to me.

[@vickymolinar4248]

I have seen lightening strike a chain fence it looked like blue christmas lights blinking.

[@greanstreak04]

I worked at a Jeep dealership years ago. We had a tow in, no crank Grand Cherokee once. It had many blown fuses that we replaced, but it still wouldn't start. It didn't take long for one of us noticed that the antenna, normally shiny steel, was blue. Yep, lightening strike. Insurance totaled the vehicle.

[@joy2own]

I had to laugh at the Morocco clip. *everyone was fine. *we have no idea why the car was smoking. 😂

[@FunnyDasha7]

Lightning hit the pool cover at our apartment building once during a severe storm, it ripped a huge hole on top of it and left a really cool branching pattern on the unerside of it. Lightning is so cool but scary 😄

[@brainhappy]

the situations in the video are scary, it's lucky that they were able to escape so narrowly

[@debrakleid5752]

As I’m watching this I saw a flash and then thunder. I wasn’t sure if it was a lightning strike on this video that lit up my room or a bolt outside. Apparently it’s a bolt outside until I heard the thunder and yesterday I got a lightning strike on video in a bad storm.

[@SUPREME-EARTH-MOMENTS]

My dad would say, "If you hear thunder and don’t run, you’ll be the reason lightning has such a high success rate." ⚡🏃‍♂

[@rondareddig]

The lighting is very fascinating!!!!!!!😊

[@FallenAngel53]

5:18 love the Creative Designs advertising in front garden

[@wallyman292]

re: #6 on the list. . . The scariest part of that clip from Morocco wasn't the lightning strike or the car catching fire. It was all the black clad people that suddenly come swarming out of all the buildings towards them afterwards! It looked straight out of a zombie movie, for christ's sake!

[@Not_your_mom1986]

First time I have ever heard someone pronounce Muskogee correct that wasn't from Oklahoma. Impressive, a lot of towns and streets are pronounced different because they are from Native American languages. My aunt on my Dad's side and my aunt on my Mom's side both lost their homes from lightning strikes. Both caught fire starting in the attic. It goes right through the roof and most generally strikes wood and then spreads. This one probably hit something in the installation. Not everything is 100 percent fire proof. ❤😮😢

[@haplessasshole9615]

He's probably a Merle Haggard fan. I'm not, myself, but a Pop Culture prof friend was, and I heard loads of pre-1975 (i.e. real) country music because of him.

[@Not_your_mom1986]

@@haplessasshole9615 I prefer 90s and before on country but the outlaw country kinda died out but its coming back!

[@Jeffrey_Lew]

10:18 The students "were in for a shock". I see what you did there!

[@sherri4881]

About two years ago, lightning struck the intersection right by my house. Talk about loud! 😂

[@fredflintstoner596]

Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view!" Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam." Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!" Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..." Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!" Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky." Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction." Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?"

[@RonaldWilliams-qh7zc]

You would assume the fish would turn into fish and chips lol👍💯 wow this was good but also terrifying at the same time 😂

[@squinton-keyhill]

We don't get much fancy lighting strikes since bottom Slovakia is very low from the clouds, we don't get much snow, raining, no hurricanes just bad weather in general maybe stronger wind, but i did get a lightning strike one house across i saw right next to me when i was going home, it was weak and not very loud. The worst storm we had here for only fev minutes cause a tiny tornado to form right Next to my mother's work in my city next to a bridge going from the station and connecting the next city, the tornado went away barely touching the building due to terrible tornado forming conditions. Rip unknown possibly one of first and only tornadoes in Slovakia.

[@js35701]

The airplane strike is crazy. It originated at the plane, went toward the ground. Then back through the plane to the cloud.

[@Berrik_The-Boxer]

8:03 i like how everyone goes to see what is happening like if people was fighting in school

[@codyadams3870]

Always watch the weather reports before you go out

[@chris76-01]

Lightning doesn't care about the height of things. It depends more on the charges in the ground matching up with the atmosphere charges. ⚡️

[@kathleenthomas1971]

lightning struck my son's house in april and caused a fire , they lost everything they had. thankfully he got the children out, they lost one pet, their cat "sage"

[@m.vanveen685]

About forty years ago I was in the northwest region of France. Coming out of the south and without money to take a hotel or the like, I went to sleep in my old car above Le Havre near Montivilliers. I didn't see much anymore around me, so I fell soon asleep. In the middle of the night I woke up by a loud thunder and saw around me an enormous amount of lightning striking trees and lampposts. Knowing that a car works as a cage of Faraday, I went to sleep again. In the morning I woke up and look around. A whole field of young trees was burned down and alle the lampposts around me were broken down. And because I had to work that evening, I live in Amsterdam, I started the car and went home. The car functioned without flaw. It was a pity I didn't have a camera then. It was sure an impressive sight.

[@mysticprogrocker]

My house caught on fire 20 years ago when lighting hit out water well and overloaded the electrical box in basement. I will never forget that day.

[@ShrodingersHat]

I remember a story of a woman who was paralysed from the waist down and was told that she'd never walk again, any way one day some forked lightning came in through her window and hit her while she was sat by the window. Fast forward a few months and she regained the ability to walk again, she was on tv over here doing interviews about it. Absolutely amazing but terrifying 😊😊

[@artwise1415]

As evidenced by finally #1 vid, lightning goes from ground up.

[@Madeinohiobunkai]

The lightning destroyed my bike. Dang.