Lightning strikes Broken Arrow home during Sunday night storms

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BROKEN ARROW, Okla. — A Broken Arrow household is near stunned aft lightning struck their location during Sunday's storms.

Shannon Girdner says she inactive can't judge however adjacent Oklahoma's terrible upwind came to destroying her house.

"I was sitting connected the sofa past nighttime aft the Browns crippled and I saw a large flash of airy successful the hallway and heard a large boom," Girdner says.

She says she looked up and instantly heard her lad screaming from his upstairs bedroom.

"A fewer seconds aboriginal I heard this large shriek from upstairs and travel to find retired it was my lad who I didn’t adjacent cognize for definite was home. He came downstairs, and his hairsbreadth was sticking up and helium was shaking," she says.

She works arsenic a caregiver and instantly began checking his vitals and making definite helium was OK. Thankfully, helium seemed to beryllium unharmed and that's erstwhile they called 911.

“The paramedics and the fireman came, and they said determination was a beardown odor of electrical pain successful the house," Girdner says.

“All of our appliances are gone. Our stove and refrigerator, you sanction it, not to notation each the kids' stuff, the XBOX and TVs and Fire Sticks."

Electricians were called retired to survey the harm and look for the introduction constituent of the lightning strike. After climbing up connected the roof, they rapidly recovered a spread adjacent her son's bedroom.

Broken Arrow location struck by lightning

"It was precise scary," she says.

"I had ne'er experienced thing similar that successful my full life."

Despite the harm to her appliances and different electrical items, she says she knows it could person been a batch worse, and she is conscionable thankful her lad is OK and her location is inactive standing.

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