Teen Struck by Lightning Indoors—The Shocking Phone Mistake That Put Her Life at Risk
According to Franklin County’s Emergency Management Agency, lightning had struck the house, sending a power surge through its mains, which then carried through Henderson’s connected charging cable.
While her pinkie finger was zapped, her mobile remains in pristine condition.
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Henderson’s fiancé, Conner Welborn, who witnessed her ordeal on the evening of June 29, claimed that she had thrown her phone—still plugged into the mains—onto the bed they had been lying on before “bawling her eyes off.”
Henderson does not remember much more than seeing bolts of lightning through her tears
Seeing his girlfriend’s distress, he called for help from relatives and dialed 911.
“You know how it feels when you’re brushing with an electric toothbrush, that kind of vibration that is in your hand?” Henderson said of the experience.
Image credits: Stephen Andrews (Not the actual photo)
“It was kind of like that but stinging. The back part of my shoulder blade hurt worse than the rest of me.”
“I don’t remember walking from the back to the front of the house,’ Henderson’s account continued. “I just remember standing by the door, while I was still crying, and the lightning striking.
The strike wiped her memory temporarily
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“I was still terrified of it. I was sitting there just looking around and hearing the ambulance. All I know is I was in pain. It hurt, and I didn’t know what was going on.”
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