Welsh girl, 10, survives lightning strike through window

[Feuer Frei!]

Wooow, how lucky can you get. Thank God the Girl is fine.

A 10-YEAR-OLD British girl cheated death after being struck by lightning inside her home, The Sun reported today. Erin Moran was watching a storm from the attic in her home in Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales, when the bolt struck with a huge bang, shooting through the glass and into her left arm, leaving through her right big toe before scorching the carpet.
The strike left a jagged, Harry Potter-style mark on Erin's arm - and small entry and exit holes in the double-glazed glass window.
Erin's mother and father, Rhian and Mark, both 40, rushed her to the hospital, where she was treated for shock.
"Erin's a very lucky girl. The lightning went right through her. The doctors were astounded," father-of-two Mark Moran said.
The bolt hit three homes in the Morans' street.
"It was ferocious, like a bomb," according to neighbour Wayne Cunningham, 49.
Professor Martin Uman, a lightning expert from the University of Florida, said strikes through windows were "very rare."

SOURCE (http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/welsh-girl-10-survives-lightning-strike-through-window/story-e6frfku0-1226054278276)

[Growler]

...she was treated for shock.


Sorry, but I laughed like hell when I read this line.


Glad she's OK, truly, but that line...

[Castout]

Lucky girl. Happy for her. It would make an astonishing story, "Hey the lightning decided to say hi and take a closer look on me while I was trying to get a look at them" :DL

[Howard313]

This has always been a fear of mine. Must've been a "shocking" experience. :yeah:

Okay, that was cruel, I apologize, I'm glad the kid is alright.

[gimpy117]

well its always been known that god hates the welsh :O:

[krashkart]

Lucky kid. :)

A couple of years ago I learned a valuable lesson about riding a bike in a thunderstorm: DON'T DO IT. The rain wasn't coming down yet and I only had a short way to go, so I chanced it. On my way back home a bolt of lightning struck somewhere nearby, close enough that I felt a jolt through the rubber grips on my handlebars. I don't remember if I saw the flash first, or heard the thunderclap first, but I definitely remember the jolt. :doh::oops:

[Falkirion]

God must love this girl, not often you get hit by lightning and survive. Except for that bloke a couple of months back who got hit twice within seconds and still walked away from it.

Krash I'd be sticking indoors during storms, unless I had a giant earthing wire attached to myself. Or the distance I had to travel was less than a couple of clicks.

[krashkart]

Krash I'd be sticking indoors during storms, unless I had a giant earthing wire attached to myself. Or the distance I had to travel was less than a couple of clicks.


My destination was probably closer than that; just a few blocks. :)

There was a fellow walking down the sidewalk across the street from me that morning. After the lightning I looked over to see him sprawled out face-first on the grass. I was about to go over to him to see if he was okay when he got up and continued on his way. We are two very lucky people. Ever since then, when I'm on that street, I look around at the surroundings to see if I can figure out where that bolt came down. There's no sign of it anywhere.


Edit: His reflexes were much better than mine. I mean, he must have hit the dirt right off. I was too stunned to do anything but stand there and think "Holy ----!".

[Castout]

Lucky kid. :)

A couple of years ago I learned a valuable lesson about riding a bike in a thunderstorm: DON'T DO IT. The rain wasn't coming down yet and I only had a short way to go, so I chanced it. On my way back home a bolt of lightning struck somewhere nearby, close enough that I felt a jolt through the rubber grips on my handlebars. I don't remember if I saw the flash first, or heard the thunderclap first, but I definitely remember the jolt. :doh::oops:


Being struck by lightning is like being hit by a bullet I guess.

You feel it first and only heard it when it's too late. :DL

[Platapus]

God must love this girl, not often you get hit by lightning and survive.


I would imagine if your god loved this girl, she would not have been struck at all. She still received some injuries.

[frau kaleun]

Okay now I was electrocuted when I was about 8-9 years old, not enough to send me to the hospital but enough to really scar my psyche for a while. To the point where I used to have nightmares about lightning that was "out to get me" and I'd dream that I was in the house watching it storm and the lightning would bust through the window and hit me. My mother told me that was crazy because something like that was impossible.

SHE LIED.

*shudder*

So glad that little girl is okay. Good grief. Literally the worst nightmare of my childhood, I don't even want to think about what it must have been like for real.

[Platapus]

I bet after this accident her mother *grounded* her.

[frau kaleun]

I bet after this accident her mother *grounded* her.

You are a bad, bad man. :O:

[Platapus]

Sorry, when it comes to lightening puns, resistance is futile

[Platapus]

I am positive that the Mother, when hearing the strike said "Ohm my god, Watt happened?"

This revolting accident sure has potential for puns. :D

[frau kaleun]

Now you are only amplifying my distaste. :nope:

[Platapus]

Sorry you are insulating yourself from my puns. I thought we were making a connection. What caused this switch? High Tension?

[krashkart]

And yet another current event thread goes down the tubes... :nope:





















El Vive Subsim! :yeah:

[frau kaleun]

Clearly, some of us lack the capacitor for compassion.

[krashkart]

I could not resist. Sadly, I'm all out of shocking puns.

[Falkirion]

Stop this sillyness or I'll have to bring you both back down to earth!

[Reece]

Most unusual for lightning to pass through glass, it is a very good insulator, the only time I saw it happen was with 33,000 volts, it shattered the glass.:hmmm:

[Rilder]

Zeus' anger is just shocking at times, when you piss him off you better get out of there like a bolt out of heaven.:O:

[krashkart]

Stop this sillyness or I'll have to bring you both back down to earth!


You can't stop us. nanner nanner naaa-nner... http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/picture.php?albumid=258&pictureid=2561

[Howard313]

*insert electricity pun that i was too lazy to make up here*

[Jimbuna]

She can fill in my lottery ticket for me on Saturday :yeah: