Bedding nearly sets ablaze in NZ lightning strike
Published: 03 September 2009
One couple had a lucky escape from a possible tragedy, emerging unscathed from their smouldering New Zealand home which nearly had flaming bed linen after a direct strike from a lightning bolt.
A married couple in New Zealand had a lucky escape after a huge bolt of lightning tore through their home's electrical circuits, causing havoc in their bedroom and beyond.Laying under their bed linen in the early hours, their abode in Wanganui East, a town 120 miles north of Wellington, was hit in a storm by nature's rage, according to the Wanganui Chronicle.
It was reported that an electrical overload destroyed many of the house's appliances.
The owners of the home, Mr and Mrs Doyle, nearly had to escape from burning bedding after their bedside lamps exploded cleanly from their bases, while switches were blackened and an outdoor generator took the full brunt of God's wrath.
Mr Doyle had trouble convincing people what happened, telling the newspaper: "People wouldn't believe us until we showed them the proof."
"There was a flash of light, a great big bang and the smell of burning plastic and just that ozoney kind of smell that you get after lightning."
Others have not been so lucky. Danish footballer Jonathan Richter, 24, who signed for eighth-placed FC Nordsjaelland in 2005, was hit directly by lightning and has his career ended after he needed to have the lower part of his left leg amputated.
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