He wanted to film a storm … and ended up taking the worst fright of his life

May 11, 2019

A young woman wanted to film a storm that hit her house when something suddenly scared her.

Erica Hite had the fear of her life when she wanted to do something as common as filming storm. This young woman was recording the heavy rain falling on her house, when suddenly a flash fell on the ground, a few meters away, leaving it impacted.

Lightning struck an aircraft of Aerolíneas Argentinas and canceled the flight

The girl was at her home in Boyton Beach, Florida, USA, when her parents, who were in Boca Raton (15 minutes away), began asking her to go out to eat with them. Tired of his insistence, he took his cell phone, went to his room, opened the curtain and started saying, "I do not know how that is, but at home it's like that ", until the fall of lightning a few meters from him. He interrupted and stopped the recording. "Oh, my God" was the only thing that came to exclaim.

In a dialogue with ABC, he said: "I jumped back and I was shocked.I just wanted to record a video for my parents to see that there was a storm outside and that I could not go to Boca Ratón. "

The video quickly became viral and contained thousands of reproductions, although people suspected it was true. Before that, a neighbor of Erica, named David Lindenbaum and 81, confirmed the fall of a ray: "As soon as it fell, I knew that". he was close, my cat was on my computer and hid in my closet and he disappeared for hours. "

There is also an objective fact that corroborates what the young woman said: The state of Florida has the highest number of lightning deaths in the United States. It is estimated that about 1,200,000 electric shocks fall each year. Although, fortunately, on this occasion, there is only regret the breakage of some sidewalks.

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