I've been hit by lightning!

Well, it was a glancing blow. I was in my garage (which has a cement floor with metal rebar in the cement) and this blast of lightning came down and hit the street light across the street from our house.

I was wearing my hair in a pony tail, and at the same time the bolt hit the street light there was a burning pain in the side of my head and I saw a little flash to my right (inside the garage!). The pony tail holder was the type that had a piece of metal holding the rubber band together. I had a burn on the side and back of my head for a week or two. It hurt a lot.

I think I'm lucky that all it did was burn the side of my head next to where the pony tail holder was. (oh, and it burned my hair...yuck! smell of burned hair is gross!)

I think what happened was that I was standing in some water that had puddled just inside our garage, and I was standing on cement with metal rebar in it. Somehow the electricity traveled from that bolt, either thru the ground, or it was attracted by the metal in the floor or the metal in my hairband. It could even have been regular static electricity. Freak accident stuff...scared the crap out of me when it happened.