Very very damned close.
Got a bit of a charge off it. All my hair stood on end for a bit after.
Louder than a .30-06 right next to me. Couldn’t see straight for a bit.
Scary stuff.
No, but I did accidently pee on a hot cattle fence once. I didn't see it as there were a few bushes in the way. It shocked me something fierce, luckily all parts remained in working order.
No, but it struck a power line pole that I was standing under and boom scared the shit our of me. The weirdest part was that it happened in winter when it was snowing. I didn't know that lighting in the winter time could even happen.
No, but my grandfather was hit twice. Same field, years apart.
Nope, but I have definitely been electrocuted. Mouth tasted like copper and you can't control your muscles.
Technically correct, however us humans colloquially also use the word to mean “to injure with electricity”. Likely because there’s no more precise a word in English for this within the commonly utilized lexicon. Please inform your alien hive.
Zapped
Zapped, shocked, tased.
No. I've been thunderstruck though.
No, but my neighbor who is a crossing guard for the elementary school got hit twice. Same place like 10 years apart. She is no worse than wear.
I had lightning strike very close to me (maybe half a block away), and i got what amounted to a static shock when i had my hand on the metal gate when it struck.
Only figuratively. But I have been pretty close to a few lightning strikes. The flash of light and simultaneous loud crack of thunder is most impressive, and then there's the smell of ozone.
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