Most Extreme Lightning Strikes Caught On Camera!

Lightning strikes are incredible displays of nature's power! In the blink of an eye, they can explode trees, set fire to terrain or just light up the sky with their immense heat and speed. From incredibly close encounters to lightning inside volcanoes, we take a look at the Most Extreme Lightning Strikes Caught On Camera with all real footage captured from dashcams, CCTV cameras and more!

🌩️⚡Chapters⚡🌩️
0:00 Intro
0:41 Close Encounters
2:10 Getting Struck by Lightning
2:40 Trees vs Lightning
4:32 What Are Lightning Rods?
5:12 Texas vs Florida
6:57 Volcanic Lightning
7:40 Outro

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#caughtoncamera
#naturaldisasters

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[OuterGalaxyLounge]

"Singin' in the rain, just singin' in the ...

[feeberizer]

My mom's uncle was struck by lightning and it messed up his digestive tract. He came to visit one time and had a blender with him to puree all his food.

[CrazyBear]

My Grandma had ball lightning come thru the wall, float across the room into the tv, and blow it up. Whenever there was a storm, she went thru the house unplugging everything. She always told us not to talk on the phone during a lightning storm, because the lightning could come down the wire from the pole. She was really paranoid about it.

[Freshadventures_]

Those lightning scars are crazy looking. That tree exploding was crazy too.

[vaderbaby]

Don't know just how rare it is for trees to get hit with lightning & end up on fire internally, but it has happened to several trees on our property in East Tennessee.

[babalonkie]

Just incase you have never come close...

Lightning once struck a house next to mine whilst i stood outside (Contact was less than 5 meters) during a storm... Not only do you go temporary deaf... you can get hit by residual electricity as it branches out just before and just after striking point. I literately was shocked physically and mentally, i could feel the electricity in my legs and apparently was standing there for about 20-30 seconds after (Felt like hours) before my brain and body kicked back in, i took shelter and processed what just happened. You could also feel the impact, heat and vibrations... it's literately a strike... like something large was just shot at you at great speeds.

[jonkline]

Thunder and lightning have just always scared me.

[Jazzy]

Bro said “taken it like a champ to the tree” 😂 3:34

[RedcoatsReturn]

Extraordinary footage 😲😲 Fascinating….and very scary too! 😊👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏😊👍👍

[jlewis]

I wasn't aware that being close enough to hear thunder also meant being close enough to be hit by lightning. Scary.

[Johannesburg]

There's been some good thunderstorms in Colorado when i was a kid. Once, while standing at an interview with my friends, we saw lightning strike some 500 feet from us. It was so close and bright i could feel heat of the lightning on my face. We took off and ran

[funnelwebspider]

Beautiful display of nature doing her thing.

[rayfridley]

I witnessed lightning striking energized electric power lines and the poles that support them. It was like seeing a long string of fire crackers going off at once.

[Benson_aka_devils_advocate_]

I used to do a lot of back country backpacking and have had a few close calls. The hair raising really can happen and feels like your playing around with an inflated balloon, or for us old people it's like an old tv screen right after you turned it off 😂

That day lightning hit a tree close enough to us that we could see the bark raining to the ground around it and got a strong smell of boiled and burnt pine sap.

[barbimachan]

Excellent video ! thank you for sharing

[Benson_aka_devils_advocate_]

Holy!

Give that editor a raise!!!

[melodyszadkowski]

I am a Florida native born in the Tampa Bay area, as well as a long-time resident of Dallas TX some time back. Having experienced mega-thunderstorms in both states, I would still grant Florida the lightning title. There's a big difference (for me) between lightning in the two states because it always appeared to me that multiple strikes in Florida seemed to come physically closer together than in Texas, as well as more strikes per minute. A friend visited me in Florida for my college graduation who was a Texas native. He was more than a little nervous as we drove down one of Tallahassee's many tree-lined streets where the trees meet in a canopy over the road, while an approaching thunderstorm rumbled up ahead. He said "ya'll got too many trees in this damn state and they're too close together." I can understand it from his perspective, but I still had to swallow a huge belly laugh at the time. Besides, Florida rarely has monster tornadoes, so I guess it evens out. 🙄🤠⚡

[stephanieyonkee]

In the first video, lighting did NOT hit the balcony, but actually hit a power line on the street below... Either way, that's definitely too close for comfort...

[livetotell]

About 10 years ago, I saw a lightning strike about 50 yards from my house. It was a late august storm. Very humid. It hit a tree. The bark from it landed on my porch.

[chiefgangmusic]

I haven’t seen lightning or heard thunder in 5 years now and I must say after watching this video, I don’t miss it.