Lightening Struck our Home!
By Terri Doss
@gtdoss (1013)
United States
August 6, 2022 4:14pm CST
We had lightening strike the top of our 80 foot tree early last month. The current ran down the length of our tree, went through the root system, came out of the ground (throwing rocks and dirt all over) and hit the side of our garage, blowing out our garage door openers. Our TV, our router, and one of our monitors was also destroyed electrically. Thankfully, our insurance company came through and paid to have our garage door openers and all of our blown electronics replaced, and they even paid some for the tree to be cut down.
It was kind of a drag to have to open our garage doors manually for a few weeks, but we just got the garage door openers replaced yesterday and have been enjoying having the use of them!
(Image by Rudy and Peter Skitterians from Pixabay)
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@1creekgirl (44560)
• United States
6 Aug 22
I'm sorry about the damage, but thankful you all didn't get hurt. A few years ago, lightening came through an electrical outlet and into my hand. It was a weird feeling, but didn't hurt me.
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@sallypup (69157)
• Centralia, Washington
6 Aug 22
Whoa. That must have been awful, @1creekgirl.
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@sallypup (69157)
• Centralia, Washington
7 Aug 22
@1creekgirl Your frightening story sounds like something out of a novel. I'm sorry for the cow but glad you are okay.
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@rebelann (117199)
• El Paso, Texas
6 Aug 22
Holy smoly, that musta scared the bageezas outta ya, I didn't know lightening would do that but so far where I am there haven't been any major thunderstorms and not that many trees here either. Good thing you have a good insurance company.
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@kaylachan (84699)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
6 Aug 22
Things can be replaced, people can't. Good luck and be thankful no one was hurt.
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@Deepizzaguy (122070)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
6 Aug 22
Lightning strikes are very scary to deal with. At least no one was hurt in this incident outside of the damage of your electrical equipment.
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@Greencindere (674)
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6 Aug 22
Oh wow! This is scary! Glad the damage wasn’t more extensive and you got all your goodies replaced.
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@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
7 Aug 22
Seeing your post I wondered how many electronics you lost. Sometimes this also destroys other appliances, like refrigerators, freezers, washers and driers. If not the strike itself, the power surge when power is restored. I learned that this year.
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@RebeccasFarm (91299)
• United States
7 Aug 22
Terrible so sorry. Thankfully no one hurt?
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@LeaPea2417 (40020)
• Toccoa, Georgia
7 Aug 22
Thank goodness it wasn't worse. That's one of my biggest fears, lightening hitting our house.
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@Juliaacv (56195)
• Canada
7 Aug 22
That is quite scary.
You are all lucky that you were not injured.
We had something similar happen years ago.
A car hit a hydro pole that had 2 sets of lines on it, the top line bounced down and hit the bottom line which sent currents back into everyone's homes. We were out at a Christmas party and our babysitter told us that she literally saw sparks coming out of the wall sockets. Anything plugged in was fried-computers, garage door openers, televisions, electric ranges, everything.
There was a class action law suit against the power company that had the lines like that on the poles and once that happened, thanks to the school who lost so many electronics, us little people all got paid. It was over 6 months until that happened.
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@aninditasen (18198)
• Raurkela, India
7 Aug 22
I haven't heard of such a powerful lightening. Very sorry there were so many damages. Good the insurance company paid for damages.
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@oahuwriter (26773)
• United States
7 Aug 22
Wow, so good you & family was safe too. Glad for you, insurance covered everything!!
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Wow - well I'm glad you didn't get hurt though! Stuff can be replaced, people can't! Good too that insurance took care of all that!
@DevMrSamEleazar (14164)
• Philippines
6 Aug 22
that is indeed scary. but glad there is insurance in there. cuz here if that happens insurance are not gonna summon
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