Lightning Struck Once
What’s a small moment from your past that you still think about years later?
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When I was about 8 years old, attending St Augustine’s Primary School, there was a passage between the stone wall of the school building and a metal fence with spiked rainings.
I was walking along the passage when lightning hit the fence, about 3 or 4 metres away.
The thunder was a very sharp crack, different from anything I’d heard before and extremely loud. I already knew that the smell was ozone. My hair stood on end. The scene was burned into my memory. I can still see it, from the point of view of my much smaller self, wearing short pants and short hair.
As far as I know, I didn’t suffer any harm. I didn’t even have time to be scared.
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