A beautiful fright. On Sunday evening, a 19-year-old woman was at home in Russellville (United States) when thunderstorms broke out. As the media tells 19 Newsshe laid down in her bed and took care of scrolling on her phone who was in charge. Then suddenly, lightning struck.
“I then heard a big noise. After this noise, everything I heard was a buzz in my ears, ”she says. She then felt tingling in her hands, as if she had “broken a fork in an electrical outlet”. She was actually electrocuted by lightning, which struck the plug to which her phone charger was connected.
A chance in 1.6 million
Fortunately, she immediately had the reflex to throw the aircraft. “If I had kept it, I could have been even more violently electrocuted,” she continues. Rescuers quickly went to her house and transported her to hospital. She was then very dizzy. “I was trying to tell them my name but I had trouble,” she recalls. I wanted to tell them my age, but I almost said 18 when I have 19. It took me a minute to remember my age. »»
The young American left the hospital on Monday. According to our colleagues, she still suffered from a few pain in the right wrist, in the right arm and the chest. But it is very grateful to be alive. In the hospital, the doctors told her that she was very lucky that the shock did not get close to her heart. According to the National Lightning Safety Council, the probability of being struck by lightning for a year is 1 out of 1,600,000.
