Storm Chaser Hit By Lightning

Storm chaser Scott Sheppard gets hit by lightning while shooting video out the window near Fairburn, South Dakota.The strike hit his arm and then traveled down to the ground and blew a hole in the pavement. The lightning also disabled his vehicle and a passing car, both of which had to be towed. Scott has a sore arm but is otherwise -yt
jimnmssays...

It's not some law of nature that lightning only strikes the tallest spot or goes for the path of least resistance. I think there's a video that has an ultra slow motion capture showing how lightning works. Before the actual bolt strikes, you can see these little "finger" looking things coming down. Once they touch something that gives it a path to the ground, the lightning is discharged. Basically it strikes what it finds first, which generally is something tall, but if it happens to find something else first, like you, it's going to strike that instead.

Kallesaid:

But how? He was in a car?
How then? Even looking out the window you are definatly not the point of least resistance nor the tallest pole..

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