Michaela Mae was traveling in the Tampa Bay area of the United States when the convoy of cars she was traveling in went into a lightning storm. Forget the world.
The video shows Barak directly hitting the vehicle in front of her, a Dodge Ram van, in which her husband Edward was driving with their three children.
The lightning struck directly at the vehicle, continued on the road and stopped right in front of the vehicle in which it was traveling.
Michaela Mae
Michaela went into shock.
She later told Fox 13 in an interview: "Edward called me from the car and told me everything was fine, that he and the three children were fine. When he was sure to get out of the car he immediately ran to me and hugged me."
Fortunately, the family came out unscathed.
But Dodge Ram was less fortunate: "The lightning fried the whole vehicle, it was completely burnt," Michaela said.
Her husband Edward added cynically: "I always wanted a Dodge Ram, this is the car I dreamed of when I was a kid. But as soon as I paid the third and final payment - boom, that lightning came and just fried the car."
Either way it is important to note that a person's chances of being struck by lightning are less than one in a million.
The Florida area is known, according to the American CDC, as a lightning-prone area.
In this case the vehicle itself was used as an insulator, so the powerful electric shock passed around the family sitting inside and did not hit it.
And what about the vehicle that went "Total Lost"?
A lightning strike is not considered an accident but an injury by a force of nature.
Therefore, in order to receive the payment for such an injury, you need to take out comprehensive car insurance that is less common in the United States, and not just accident insurance - as the Mae couple did.
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