A bolt of lightning struck the grassy field just beyond the junkyard, 10 meters (30 feet) ahead of that old Renault from the early 1950s with that army looking green paint job. It was one of those really big bolts too...Loud enough you would think it was blowing the top of the sky off. This is at the very front of the storm just before it started raining.
The Aardwolf Family's house is next door to the shop. Needless to say, Sy Aardwolf and his wife Zella, who let their 13 year old son Hiraldo sleep with them that night to feel safe, all agreed, "ESSE foi perto" (THAT was close).
It was a good thing no one would have been milling around in front of that Renault that night...Either Sy, Hiraldo, or Fusko Mongoose (employee), or possibly Zella, would have made a startling discovery during the beginning of the work day about the time someone needed a part off of a junked car.
10 meters away ? In our summer home (sold late 2003). lightning smacked the garage driveway. Soil ,dividing strips and stones were flung out from under the driveway, and a beam exploded in the garage. Splinters across the garage. Electric bolt seared a mark between 2 outside nails. Later painted over. Concrete later began to flake and crumble (not all slabs. Some were better made by us and did not break down like that). Maybe the metal (rebar?) grid in the concrete blitzed whole slabs/ This driveway was later obliberated, by a later owner.
In another storm, some pine tree near the house (100 feet) got zapped and a branch died. Falling debris burned some pine needles under the tree. ODDLY I had a psychic vision of the tree burning before seeing it for the first time as we reached the house. I have premonitions & such but not reliably.
10 meters away ? In our summer home (sold late 2003). lightning smacked the garage driveway. Soil ,d
A big tree on my land was struck by lightning, taking the top off and stripping all the bark off of one side. The main bolt hit the big tree, and I could see where there were smaller bolts that came with it that also hit two smaller trees 15 and 20 feet away. It was a close call for a couple of my dogs. They were playing near those trees only minutes before the lightning hit.
A big tree on my land was struck by lightning, taking the top off and stripping all the bark off of
As I said my precognition is not reliable. I foresaw a hurricane hitting my Long Island home decades ago and many trees, including a blue spruce on our front lawn got ripped down by a tornado. We learned of it while on vacation .
I had no such when a hurricane recently roared through my NJ home town. The power went out about 6:15 then came back. Then it went out again about 6:45 and stayed down. It was out all night, all next day and for Sunday night.. The house was getting cold, and I was not going to spend another night having to wear an overcoat to bed. I was looking for a hotel.
I didn't fancy having to cook dinner by candlelight so I ate at a good eatery. The drive there showed which areas were blacked out by whatever power lines went down.
My town is deficient in hotels -and I didn't fancy having to book a room at the Marriot hotel where the bus turns off the freeway. But, as I neared the driveway, I saw the neighbor's decorative light on, and knew the power was back on. A power pole at the end of the block had been torn down by the storm. Neighbor said it was a TORNADO ! I only had her word for it.
A dogwood had come down in the backyard and I had to clear out the wreckage. The stump later died. Its dogwood neighbor only lost a small branch (that died and was removed).
As I said my precognition is not reliable. I foresaw a hurricane hitting my Long Island home decades
Where I live in Arkansas, they say never stand near a fence around a pasture during a thunderstorm. Lightning can strike a cattle fence, or a strand of barbed wire, almost a quarter of a mile away, travel down the fence, and arc out of the fence where you are standing and get you.
Lightning had set barns on fire that way where a barbed wire fence was attached to the barn (especially if the barbed wire wasn't grounded)...Even if it struck the barbed wire fence a long way from the barn, it would travel down the strands of barbed wire to the barn, make ground through the barn, thus setting it on fire.
Where I live in Arkansas, they say never stand near a fence around a pasture during a thunderstorm.
My mother or grandmother was told by her mother not to stand near an open window or door during a storm: the screen could electrify. (the family lived in Penn. back then, in Virginia earlier yet)
Forgot to mention it: I found 2 patches of melted sidewalks in town (glassy globules that used to be concrete , and grass scorched by electric blasting ftom a now exposed underground line).I still have the globules.
My mother or grandmother was told by her mother not to stand near an open window or door during a st
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