[TheForge] OT Lightening story

[Phlip]

Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...

> My mother told me that when she was a child some 70 years ago in Northern
> Michigan she was standing near the front door of the house when a bolt of
> lightning hit the house.  Out of the fireplace rolled a three foot blue
ball
> of electricity that started to roll across the room towards her.  She
> remembers opening the front door and watching it roll outside.  As far as
I
> have been able to find out this has been known to happen but todate the
> phenomena has never been recorded on film.   Bill

Just passing through?

;-)

My grandmother told a similar story, watching lightening hit a tree outside,
then wandering around a bit until it vanished. Personally, I'd say both
ladies were pretty lucky not to have a more, um, intimate encounter with it.

I really wonder about that guy, the Park Ranger, who claims to have been
struck by lightening 5+ times. Dunno about the rest of you, but I'd be
definitely watching where I was during thunder storms....

Saint Phlip,
CoDoLDS

"When in doubt, heat it up and hit it with a hammer."
 Blacksmith's credo.

 If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably not a
cat.

Never a horse that cain't be rode,
And never a rider who cain't be throwed....