Woman Filming Violent Thunderstorm Gets Scare of a Lifetime As Lightning Leads to ‘Fireball’!
A woman filming a violent thunderstorm from a covered back porch facing her screened in pool seemed to be enjoying all Mother Nature had to offer.
She pans around the backyard showing heavy rain and high winds dramatically bending the trees. The storm doesn’t frighten her at all. In fact, she says jovially that there’s “a real rootin’ tootin’ amount of rainfall here. It’s fun.
“It’s just beautiful [...] I love it,” she continued.
She even expresses excitement over the lightening. Little did she know only a few seconds later, she would see something more impressive than the flashes and crashes she had been witnessing before. She would capture the startling footage of lightning strike only a few yards from her home.
(Image: YouTube)
(Image: YouTube screenshot)
Watch the incident for yourself (Warning: Strong language):
She describes the event as a “fireball” in the title of the video posted on YouTube.
(H/T: Gawker)
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Comments (68)
Elena2010
Posted on October 9, 2012 at 12:10amI have had the misfortune of being within feet of a lightening strike. I can tell you, not only are they impressively bright, but they are also incredibly LOUD! They taste like burnt metal; it’s the ozone. I was abt 18 yrs old when a lightening strike hit in our backyard. I was watching the storm fm the front windows and was a foot airborne when the crash exploded behind me LOL
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ijava44
Posted on October 9, 2012 at 12:53amNature’s pretty cool until it bites you in the ****!
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Master_and_Commander
Posted on October 9, 2012 at 4:30amI can remember one time way back in boy scouts I was camping, and lightning struck a tree right in the middle of our camp. Scared the hell out of us, and we all had to scatter in every direction as we were taught to do and sit out the storm. I’ll never forget how loud that thing was, shook me right to my core. Haha but it was awesome too…
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thegreatcarnac
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 11:29pmGod said…..get off that camera…now!
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ImMadAsHell
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 11:08pmThe Lord is ALWAYS in Control…. That would hace scarred the crap out of me too lady…. hahahahah
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starman70
Posted on October 9, 2012 at 8:01amPASS THE TOILET PAPER!!!!
rqd.lc
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4xeverything
Posted on October 9, 2012 at 1:34pmMy kids always ask me why they can’t watch lightning storms from the picture windows in our house. This is why kids! Now, go eat your veggies and do your homework!
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tallscot
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 8:47pmThe camera is on a tripod to make adding the effects in post easy. She pans to the right them the left and it’s not handheld, it’s on a tripod. So the way she starts on the left and goes right and then comes back and stops and holds, on a tripod, makes me think its fake.
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K Chad Roberts
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 1:46pm… What reason would anyone have to fake something like this? And so what if it was on a tripod? What does that matter towards the video’s legitimacy?
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Stehekin912
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 8:10pmDefinitely impressive! Lightning strike caught “on tape”! You can see the lightning bolt arcing up into the cloud right when the strike happens! Cool. Expletive forgiven :)
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merik59
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 7:05pmThis is what zoom lenses are for. Intense!
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zoose
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 5:58pmYears ago in Colorado I had a 13 acre timber cut at 9600 feet. Out of the blue one afternoon I heard ‘click-click’ and then a boom. Lightning had struck about 800 feet away. Later I smelled something burning and I traipsed over to find a hole in the ground and pine needles smouldering. That’s how forest fires start.
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Elena2010
Posted on October 9, 2012 at 12:25amAye, the second time I experienced lightening up close was in NC. I was watching TV w/a cat in my lap when the bolt struck a 250-yr old live oak tree in front of my house. First it blew thru the bricks of the chimney before slashing the tree. The scorch mark was abt 6-8 ft long, come the next morning when I could inventory the damage. The cat rocketed out of my lap, heading for the back of the house at warp speed, cursing all the way! I found her half an hour later still under the desk in the farthest corner of the house fm the fireplace!
I had that funny taste in my mouth for some time and had to push the hairs on my arms back into place since the electricity caused them to stand on end.
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abwehragent
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 5:48pmI researched the matter years ago. Ball lightning is not common, but it does occur, with fascinating behavior patterns.
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LetUsReason
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 6:03pmFascinating behavior patterns in the person watching them, too.
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ms4kidz
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 5:44pmI love, love, love (I think you get the picture) thunderstorms. The louder the better, but, that was a little too close for comfort.
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sabrinacle
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 5:52pmlol.Saw God and thats the first word that comes out of her mouth? Oh who am I to judge.I would have said the same thing
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Wool-Free Vision
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 5:14pmLightning Bolt! Lightning Bolt! Lightning Bolt! Lightning Bolt! FIREBALL!
http://youtu.be/j_ekugPKqFw
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Eastinfection
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 8:39pmHad to hit it before i checked out for the night…
as usual Wool.. you don’t disappoint. Ear-to-ear. beer on the keyboard.
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tiredofbeingtired
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 5:04pmKinda odd that she had viewers focused on that particular tree at that exact moment. A bit fishy.
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nesmond
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 5:00pmIf we could only direct that lightning to Washington D.C.
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TheVOR
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 4:50pmAnybody else notice in the last 5 seconds of the video, after the expletive, how bright and dry the patio was. And, the dog standing seemingly unfazed by it all?
Thoughts???
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ImMormon
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 5:55pmGood eye… didn’t catch it the first time, but I think you’re on to something!
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Eastinfection
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 6:20pm@THEV…
i froze it and watched frame by frame. the patio is lit up, but not dry. it’s clearly soaked. Don’t know the source of light, though.
As far as the dog goes… i have a pit/ boxer mix that takes off into the woods to attack trees as they fall down in big storms. Some dogs just ain’t afraid of nuthin’.
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The-Monk
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 6:49pmHowdy Eastinfection,
My fighter pilot buddy has a doberman that jumps up at lightning trying to catch it. I’ve been out in the yard watching him jump at the lightning bolts; straight up in the air and his rear paws are higher than my head. It’s the only dog that I’ve ever been afraid of.
And no…. I’m not a dwarf. LOL
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ZaphodsPlanet
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 7:57pmI think whatever form of paranoia you developed from past drug use has yet to clear your mind. She goes into her living room, patio is wet, dog’s tail is down as if it’s had the crap just scared out of it(which it probably did unless it’s deaf)…. pool is screened in ….that’s why there’s rain running off the umbrella, tile is wet…. and she just had the crap scared out of her. I can relate to this because a tree in my neighbors yard, not 10 or 15ft away from where I was working on my computer got hit by lightening a couple weeks ago. Gave me an adrenalin rush I will not soon forget, it tripped the GFI circuit breakers in my house, luckily it didn’t hurt any of my computers, but it did fry the sequencer board in my garage door opener along with the IR sensors.
Stay Sober….. you’re looking for things that aren’t there man.
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Klingon00
Posted on October 9, 2012 at 11:51amIt’s not dry, only the part under the overhang where the dog is. If you look further out, the patio is very much wet.
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countryfirst
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 4:49pmIs it true that lighting never strikes the same spot twice? I hope the same thing regarding Obama
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Former_Road_Finisher
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 9:12pmNo. Lightning can and does strike the same target twice and more often.
The neighbor had a huge tree in the back that was struck three times. The second time it was struck I was riding my horse back home in the driveway when that bolt struck the tree from a storm miles away. No, the horse did not panic. A year later, the tree was hit again with bark flying in all directions. The next day, they cut that tree down.
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wingedwolf
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 4:46pmI’m sure I’d have soiled my underwear!
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vaughan
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 4:42pmHa ha ha ha…
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burnteye86
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 4:41pmNow that was some strong language. I’m still blushing.
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forthepeople
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 4:33pmOh **** ! is right ……………
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The-Monk
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 4:31pmJust when you think Mother nature is your friend….. BANG!!!!
Smack-down!
It’s not nice to fool with Mother Nature… unless you’re a Monk. : )
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momrules
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 4:43pmHi Monk……I don’t know about Monks but this old Mama would probably have yelped out a pretty loud expletive too! Maybe not even as tame as hers was………LOL
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The-Monk
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 5:11pmHi Momrules,
When I was a young lad I loved to lay on the diving board, in the rain, and watch the Lightning.
For some reason I was never scared of it…. still not today. Mother Nature is my friend. Now my Mom….
My Mother used to yell out to me, “If you get hit by Lightning…. I’m gonna kill you!!!!”
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Tired of Code Names
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 5:31pm@the-monk…cool video. I know of a lawyer wanna be that was nearly struck by lightening. He chose to become a monk instead. Changed the world!
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The-Monk
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 5:50pmHi Tired of Code Names,
There’s an old story here about a lawyer who was representing a really bad dude. He won on a technical issue and the guy went free. A lot of people were really pissed off.
One day he was out in the Gulf fishing with some friends and decided to have it out with God. He stood on the bow of the boat and screamed up at the heavens, “If you think I did wrong go ahead and strike me down with Lightning!!”
Well, to his friends astonishment, he was struck by a Lightning Bolt while he had his arms outstretched and died right there.
When I say, “It’s not nice to fool with Mother Nature” I really mean it. : )
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Tired of Code Names
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 6:15pm@the-monk. Nice. Check this one out.
A man went to a brain store to get some brain to complete a study. He sees a sign remarking on the quality of professional brain offerred at this particular brain store. He begins to question the butcher about the cost of these brains.
“How much does it cost for engineer brain?”
“Three dollars an ounce.”
“How much does it cost for programmer brain?”
“Four dollars an ounce.”
“How much for lawyer brain?”
“$1,000 an ounce.”
“Why is lawyer brain so much more?”
“Do you know how many lawyers we had to kill to get one ounce of brain?”
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Eastinfection
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 6:25pmHey Monk–
lol!..You can make every story sound like it was part of your training :D
@CODE NAME…. great joke too.
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The-Monk
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 6:53pmHey Eastinfection,
Ever here the Monk story about the “Ugliest Thing In The World”?
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Eastinfection
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 6:58pmMYSTERIOUS MONK…
have not.
do tell
… unless it’s about Debbie Wasserman Schultz… i’ve had my fill of that topic.
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The-Monk
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 7:38pmMysterious Infection,
Had to run an errand. Do you what me to post that story here?
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The-Monk
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 8:08pmFor you East,
A long time ago, in a village far away…
Children were allowed to be children; to play, no responsibilities, no school, until about eight years old. Then the parents would take the child to the wise old man who sat under a tree. The wise old man’s job was to find out what was intrinsic to each child so they would take the right path in their Life and not just the path the parents thought was right. In some c i r c u m s t a n c e s the child would be asked to bring a gift and if the gift was accepted the child would become the student.
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The-Monk
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 8:09pmPart 2,
This one young boy was brought to the wise old man and was asked to bring a gift in advance. He did not know what to bring so when he met the wise old man he asked what gift he wanted. “Bring me the ugliest thing in the world” the wise old man asked.
So the boy set out to find the ugliest thing in the world. He didn’t know of anything that ugly in the village so he walked down the dirt road leading out of the village. As he walked past the fields of grains and vegetables he saw a snake. “Ah ha, he said, all the women in his village hate snakes and the men kill them to make the woman happy.” So he caught the snake, put it in his bag and headed back, happy that he had succeeded. After a while he heard a voice, “I… I’m the ugliest thing in the world? I eat the mice that damage your crops. How can I be the ugliest thing in the world?” The boy thought about it for a while and let the snake go. He turned around and headed down the dirt road away from the village again.
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Eastinfection
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 8:10pm@Monk.. save it for tomorrow… i’ve gotta “bolt” soon (get it?- lightning story?)
wah-wah-wah
Anyway MONK- before i go… check out the baseball player/ free-will story. love to hear your thoughts on this topic tomorrow (i believe in both free will AND predestination)
Also “Mysterious Monk” sounds way cooler than “Mysterious Infection”. Guess i kinda walked into that one. Oh well. ciao.
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The-Monk
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 8:12pmLast part,
It’s getting late now and the boy is very tired. As he walked down the road he saw some Human dung in a ditch. There are no bathrooms around and it’s a common site to see that people have defecated next to the road in a ditch.” Ah ha, he said with joy! This is it! No one can say that this is not the ugliest thing in the world.” So he got a banana leaf, wrapped up the dung and put it in his bag. As he walked back to the village he thought about the voice. “I hope I don’t hear that voice again!” After a long while and almost back to the village he hears it again. “I… I’m the ugliest thing in the world? I was cauliflower, I nourished someone’s body. How could I be the ugliest thing in the world?” He thinks about it and puts the dung back in the ditch.
Well, at this point the boy is exhausted, the village is near and it’s getting dark. So he goes back to the wise old man… empty handed and distraught. The wise old man sees his empty hands and knows that the boy will not be influenced by his own conclusions. This was the gift and the boy became the student.
Hope you understood this and that Debbie Washhermouthout Schultz was not born at this time.
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Eastinfection
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 8:13pmOH MONK… too late! curse my blasted pick n peck! Oh well.. gonna make me late for a whole lotta nuthin’ :)
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The-Monk
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 8:15pmSave the link and read it tomorrow……
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Eastinfection
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 8:17pmbetter tell me the rest MONK.. or i’m not sleeping tonight. Something about this sounds familiar, though. i need closure!!
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The-Monk
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 8:18pmHey East….
“I believe in both free will AND predestination”
Guess you’re predestined to be a bit late if your free will decides to read it first….. : )
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Eastinfection
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 8:24pmThis place is a temporal vortex MONK.
I HAVE heard that story before, though it also seems new to me.
I get it, alright.
A Long Time Ago, in a galaxy very, very far away, I was a Fine Arts major w/ a specialty in watercolor.
Beauty is Truth. Truth is Beauty. Goodnight my friend.
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The-Monk
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 8:25pmDang… part 3 didn’t post. Here it is.
Later he saw a Crow. “Ah ha, he said, everyone hates Crows.” In the village all the houses have flat roofs with ladders leading up to the top so that the people can put their grain on the roof to dry in the sun. So the boy caught the Crow, put it in his bag and once again headed back to the village. As he walked, happy that he had finally found something that the wise old man would accept, he heard the voice again. “I… I’m the ugliest thing in the world? When I see all the grain on your roof I call all my friends so we all can share in the feast. Do you call all your friends when you find food and share it with everyone?” Well, the boy thought about it and let the Crow go. He turned around and headed down the dirt road away from the village again.
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Eastinfection
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 8:29pmMONK…
“Guess you’re predestined to be a bit late if your free will decides to read it first”
Somehow i knew you would understand this concept :)
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piplovestheUSA
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 4:25pmWhen lightning would hit our boat sometimes it would make a fire ball. One of us would grab a broom and run out and sweep it off the deck before it could start a fire. Hehe- old WWII joke.
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Gary_K
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 4:23pmSounds like she had to shower and change.
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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 4:18pmRare sight indeed, at the least she is unhurt by it hitting so near. Wish the entire video could be shown.
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KickinBack
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 4:16pmlol! Yepirreee! I’ts just a real, rootin’ tootin’—-BAM!!—-
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afellowpatriot
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 4:16pmThose are the two words I would have used too!
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piper60
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 4:12pmShe should have continued her video taping. I’d love to see the result if she did.
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Max jones
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 4:26pmThat happened to me once…..will cause a speedy duck and run in anybody!!!
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ronin_6
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 9:08pmShe couldn’t she wet herself.
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