VIDEO: a lightning bolt fell on the door of her house and she recorded the exact moment

Erica wanted to show her parents that it was raining very hard in her area and that she was not an excuse for not going to dinner with them (Video: Erica Hite)

In the middle of a big storm, for many, it's almost a reflex to approach the window and record how the sky goes wild to share it on Instagram, without worrying of the possibility that a lightning strikes them just above, a few meters or in the yard of your house.

Although this seems totally unlikely, it could happen, as Erica Hite shows, a woman Boyton Beach, FloridaThat Sunday took the shock of his life when he recorded a video to send to his parents.

"My parents wanted me to have dinner but it was raining hard outside and I knew they would not believe me because in Boca it was not raining anymore, so I went to record a video so that they could see that it was still raining outside, "Hite told the US network ABC.

With the cell phone in his hand and the room leaning, he went to his bedroom. "Well, I do not know how it's going to be there, but it's like that at home," he tells them. The curtain in the room is lifted.

A second later, a frightening ray unleashed all his anger a few feet from his window. The picture that has become viral these days, because of the impact of the observation the strength of this phenomenon so close

"I jumped back, and I stayed as 'my god' "said Erica Hite, who can be heard screaming in terror in the video.

Fortunately, there were no regrets injured, although the sidewalk of the street was destroyed for the ferocity of the discharge.

"As soon as I learned that I was close, my cat was on my laptop and I now know that she was hidden in my closet, gone, we did not see him for hourssaid David Lindenbaum, an 81-year-old neighbor.

Florida is the state with greater number of deaths by lightning strike from the country. Every year, an average of 1,200,000 downloads.

It is expected that in the coming hours, adverse weather will affect more than 40,000,000 Americans, from Texas to Missourias reported ABC. Monday only in Kansas, three tornadoes broke out, the size of billiard balls and winds reaching 300 km / h.

They also reported that Wednesday Ice storm This will affect Oklahoma City and Dallas. States like Texas and Oklahoma are on alert about the possibility of tornado formation in the next hours.