Local Woman Hit By Lightning While Praying
We didn't get a drop of this much needed rain but a few miles over in Daphne,
Clara Jean Brown stood in her kitchen and prayed for her family's safe return from the beach as a strong thunderstorm rumbled through her part of Baldwin County, Alabama.
But while she prayed, lightning suddenly exploded, blowing through the linoleum and leaving a blackened area on the concrete. Brown wound up on the floor, dazed and disoriented by the blast but otherwise uninjured.
She said 'Amen' and the room was engulfed in a huge ball of fire. The 65-year-old Brown said she is blessed to be alive.
Firefighters said its likely she was hit by a bolt of lightning that apparently struck outside and traveled into the house yesterday afternoon. She was found lying on the floor by her 14-year-old granddaughter.
Fire officials think the lightning likely struck across the street from the couple's home and traveled into the house through a water line. The lightning continued into the couple's backyard and ripped open a small trench.
A family member said he will no longer assume it is safe to be indoors during a lightning strike.
Dime-sized hail and wind gusts of up to 45 miles-per-hour moved across coastal Baldwin County. As much as three inches of rain fell in some areas in three hours.
News Story Here
And speaking of drought, I have figured out that grey grass means that with just a little rain eventually, the grass CAN turn green again, but brown grass means....its over....centipede anyway, what is over on the Hardwood Drive 'so called' lawn.
Clara Jean Brown stood in her kitchen and prayed for her family's safe return from the beach as a strong thunderstorm rumbled through her part of Baldwin County, Alabama.
But while she prayed, lightning suddenly exploded, blowing through the linoleum and leaving a blackened area on the concrete. Brown wound up on the floor, dazed and disoriented by the blast but otherwise uninjured.
She said 'Amen' and the room was engulfed in a huge ball of fire. The 65-year-old Brown said she is blessed to be alive.
Firefighters said its likely she was hit by a bolt of lightning that apparently struck outside and traveled into the house yesterday afternoon. She was found lying on the floor by her 14-year-old granddaughter.
Fire officials think the lightning likely struck across the street from the couple's home and traveled into the house through a water line. The lightning continued into the couple's backyard and ripped open a small trench.
A family member said he will no longer assume it is safe to be indoors during a lightning strike.
Dime-sized hail and wind gusts of up to 45 miles-per-hour moved across coastal Baldwin County. As much as three inches of rain fell in some areas in three hours.
News Story Here
And speaking of drought, I have figured out that grey grass means that with just a little rain eventually, the grass CAN turn green again, but brown grass means....its over....centipede anyway, what is over on the Hardwood Drive 'so called' lawn.
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