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Lightning strikes home in Brookline, Massachusetts: "It shook the entire house"
A disruptive storm rolled through Greater Boston Tuesday night, leaving damage and thousands in the dark.
A home on Hammond Street in Brookline took a direct hit from lightning. Reece Whiton was in his kitchen when he saw two flashes of light. "It sounded almost like a gunshot, and there was like this bright blue flash of light," Whiton said.
Two powerful flashes of light, but what Whiton didn't know is that the lightning had blasted his bedroom to destruction. He was just feet away looking out at the storm.
"It shook the entire house and one of the covers on an outlet in the kitchen flew off," Whiton said. "We started to kind of smell this burning rubber ozone type thing, and we started to see smoke and then we are like OK we are getting out of here."
A home on Hammond Street in Brookline took a direct hit from lightning. Reece Whiton was in his kitchen when he saw two flashes of light. "It sounded almost like a gunshot, and there was like this bright blue flash of light," Whiton said.
Two powerful flashes of light, but what Whiton didn't know is that the lightning had blasted his bedroom to destruction. He was just feet away looking out at the storm.
"It shook the entire house and one of the covers on an outlet in the kitchen flew off," Whiton said. "We started to kind of smell this burning rubber ozone type thing, and we started to see smoke and then we are like OK we are getting out of here."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/lightning-strikes-home-in-brookline-massachusetts-it-shook-the-entire-house/ar-AA23C3qD
Dear Goddess, there is a picture at the link showing what is left of the bedroom!
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You are very lucky you were not hurt, lastlib. 
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