Lightning Sends Man Flying Out Of His Shoes

After returning home from work this past Saturday, Sean O’Connor was planning on doing some routine yard work around the house.  Mother Nature had other plans.  Just as Sean was about to begin lawn maintenance, lightning struck him in his foot, sending him flying across his yard.  The following was taken from a piece produced by CBS 46 in Atlanta:

O’Connor was home alone. So, it took him a bit to realize what had just happened.

“My leg hairs were singed. I could smell the burnt hair,” he explained. “I looked across the driveway and I could see my boots over there. They were no longer on my feet, and one of them was smoking’. At that point I realized I had just been hit by lightning.”

O’Connor called his wife and shot cell phone video of the smoking boot and his bleeding tongue to prove to her he wasn’t kidding. He seems dazed in the video shot just moments after he came to.

Check out this video…it shows segments from the video Sean took himself of his boots smoking following the incident.

CBS46 News

Let this be a lesson to all…when thunder roars, go indoors!