Shocking: Woman Struck by Lightning...While Inside Local Grocery Store

Lakeisha Brooks. (screen grab)

A Louisiana woman got a little more than she bargained for Monday when she went inside a local grocery store during a thunderstorm.

Likening the sensation to “hot oil running down her thigh,” Lakeisha Brooks was struck by lightning while standing in the checkout line at her local Rouses supermarket, WWLTV.com reports.

"Like when you're cooking, that pop," she said, describing the sound.

She said she saw a flash and then heard a loud crashing sound.

"But I didn't realize it was over me," she said today. "It dimmed my eyes to where they were burning."

She immediately pulled her two-year-old daughter away from the sound. Then she felt it again, the report claims.

"I felt like a breeze and then the pain came," she said.

The bolt was powerful enough to knock her shoe off her foot.

"I had all of this black smut on the bottom," she said.

She staggered over to the other side of the store before and looked back in time to see another bolt of lightning.

"I didn't realize I had been struck by lightning until I saw it again," she said.

"A man there kept saying, ‘You never see lightning strike the same place twice. Well, it did.' "

Although in pain, she’s grateful to be alive.

“Brooks, a 33-year-old Houma native and mother of four who works in the Evergreen Junior High School cafeteria, said though she is burned and feels pain in her legs when she walks, said she feels blessed to be alive,” WWLTV.com reports.

"First thing I said when I sat down was God is good," she said.

Her two-year-old was shaken by the experience (wouldn’t you be if you saw your mother get struck by lightning?).

"She keeps asking, ‘Is everything OK?'” Brooks said of her child.

Houma Fire District Chief Joe Mouton said she was struck by lightning at around 2:13 p.m Monday afternoon. He added authorities believe the lightning traveled through the store's sprinkler system.

“National Weather Service Meteorologist Gavin Phillips said he had never heard of someone being struck by lightning inside,” the WWLTV.com report continues. “A foot-wide blackened tile near a register marked the strike.”

"I guess it's just one in a million," one store employee noted.

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