NewzA 24-year-old Staten Island man survived a lightning strike while walking with an umbrella, an incident that was captured on a residential doorbell camera. The surveillance footage shows the exact moment the lightning bolt hit the individual, immediately knocking him to the ground.
Incidents of lightning strikes, while relatively rare, pose severe health risks, but survival is possible depending on the circumstances of the discharge. Doorbell cameras and residential surveillance systems are increasingly documenting such unexpected weather-related events in real time, providing rare visual records of natural phenomena.
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