Struck by lightening?
 

So I'm running some errands and it's pissing down... I get out of the car to drop off a couple of DVDs and as I'm running back I feel a weird out of body like experience... can't even explain it but it was fuckin SURREAL... Electric even LOL...

At that moment fearing the worst I open my car door and dive in the front seat just as the sky LIGHTS up and I hear the loudest crack of thunder in my life happen almost simultaneously... I think it hit the building right behind my car or something... but it was LOUD!!!

What a crazy experience... anyone else been thru something like that?

JFK... when I ran him over in Mexico.

I have had lightening strike too close for comfort before but, never had the 'tingles'. Of course once I was in my car driving and it literally struck the ground right next to me. The second time it hit the apartment building just outside my balcony (while I was watching TV with the windows open) and set the building on fire. Loudest shit I have ever heard.
Glad you are ok!

I think you were pretty lucky to dive into the car when you did.

I have had lightening strike 100 feet away from me hitting a palm tree a few years ago, it was a real erie feeling like what you are saying, I felt something in the back of my throat and the hair on my arms and neck stood up like 5 seconds before it struck.

It was kinda cool but freaky. Loud and bright as fuck.

Yeah, when I worked for the phone company as a cable splicer.

I was working in this neighborhood up "on the hill" and while they always had different weather than anywhere else in the South Bay, this one particular morning the air was very still . . . it was really weird.

All of a sudden a bolt of lightning slammed down in the middle of the street, probably no more than 50' in front of me.

THe crack was the loudest noise I have ever heard, and the skies immediately opened up and started pouring rain like nobodies business.

I have also watched lightning hit trees, and telephone poles, but I was always inside when those happened.

Glad you are okay

Heh... that's what all my girlfriends say...

Amelia!

Heh... thanks... it was definitely a "soiled shorts" inducing kind of incident... luckily I haven't really gotten my appetite back since my return from Mex...

phew!

Crappy image of how lightning works:

http://library.thinkquest.org/20698/media/how2.jpg

Negative ion paths branch downward from the clouds as a 'stepped leader'. When some branches of the leader get close enough to the ground, one or more positively-charged ion leaders seek upward towards the closest node.

If you happen to be under a positive leader, it apparently will make your hair stand on end and make you feel light-headed. This is why they suggest that if you're playing golf on a cloudy day and feel your hair standing on end, DITCH YOUR IRON AND LIE DOWN QUICK. Electricity likes to travel from conductors to the air through points (like the top of your head :winkwink: ) and lying down can retard or dissipate the development of the positive leader.

Quick thinking jumping in that car. Might have saved your life! :thumbsup

I remember one time...

I was caught in the middle of the railroad track. I heard the ground and I knew there was no turning back. My mind raced and I thought, "What could I do?" And I knew there was no help, no help from you. The sound of the drums beating in my heart, the thunder of guns tear me apart. I'd been.... thunderstruck.

never had that kind of experience. really close to a tragic death.. just be thankful you're still alive

that was almost an out of body experience:1orglaugh

The first time I met you I felt the same way!

When I was like 5 or so we had lightning strike a tree next to the house. It entered the top and blew out the bottom and fused the gas meter shut. looked like a bomb went off with wood sticking out of the ground all over the place

one time i was struck by lightning as a youth

now i can control electricty and stuff, pretty wild stuff

chicks dig it

You just barely missed being struck. What you were feeling was the "static electricity" charging around you. Your hair may have even stood on end.

Many people who feel this don't have cars to dive into, so you were lucky. I'm very glad you're okay.

Pretty fucking crazy LAJ! I'm glad you're alright.

Hopefully you weren't wearing all of your bling bling like you normally do. Those platinum chains and bracelets that you always wear are real strong conductors!

thank God you're alive... never experienced that kind of stuff... i think you have to be more careful! :)

A friend of mine was cleaning pools and standing in the shallow part of the pool. A bolt of lightening hit his right arm. He said that he was just standing there, and the next thing, he opens his eyes, and he is laying on the side of the pool, and it is raining. He has no idea how he laid down there.

There was a red mark on his arm, and all the hair was gone. The doctor told him that what saved his life is the pool pole that he was holding, moved the electricity into the water, so it did not need an escape route from his body.

He was very lucky.