Tom Marcinko says: "[Here's] what happens when you’re struck by lightning. I know it’s not funny, and according to survivors, the long-term effects are no picnic either. Still, you can’t help but be struck (sorry) by this description:"
All [Jerry] LeDoux remembers about the moment he was struck in August 1999 is that he was standing ankle-deep in a puddle when he was overcome by an intensely bright light. He woke up a half-hour later, 20 feet away, with a vague taste of battery acid in his mouth, he said. The soles of his shoes had melted, his two-way radio had exploded, and several of his teeth had shattered. The medical ID tag he wore around his neck was melted into his chest. He drove home from work that afternoon and was back on the job the next day. 'I didn't even know I was hurt. I didn't realize anything was wrong,' says LeDoux, a 62-year-old master mechanic from Sulphur, La. It took several weeks before he realized just how fried his circuits were–and almost six months to find a doctor who believed he'd been struck.
