What Happens If You're Struck By Lightning?

The chances of you being hit by lightning are small by comparison, but it does happen! Hank will go through what ultimately happens when you are struck by lightning because chances are you will survive to tell it to your friends.

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[sogerc]

Come on man, who gets struck by lighning 7 times, that's ridiculous. After the second I would quit that job so fast not even a lightning could catch me.

[MeGaFaNdEzElDa]

If you got struck by a Lighting you will not be able to reconnect with your past lives and get the Avatar state again

[LazaroCarvalhaes]

girl: "I like your tattoo."
guy: "Actually, that's a scar from when I was struck by lightning."
girl: *removes clothes*

[jshenefelt]

"If you live in Tampa and like to play golf in July and have no fear of storms, your odds of being struck are 'Ya you're stupid'. "  OMG that's absolutely awesome, I laughed for quite a while.

[ScriptGuider]

Fun fact, lightning struck the grave of the man who got struck 7 times after he died. Look it up.

[shindoushuichi]

7 shots by Zeus. man did he have it out for that guy.

[lostshadow]

yeah my most favorite hobby is holding a flag pole during severe weather

[vatra]

Or, after seven strikes he came to the conclusion that the afterlife was almost assuredly going to be better than life.

[apriljones]

My uncle got struck by lightning THREE TIMES. He's still alive.
So he's either incredibly lucky or incredibly unlucky, depending on how you look at it.

[michelledebruin]

As a lightning strike survivor. I'd also like to add the intense fear of thunderstorms to the list of after effects. Like panic attack call into work and hide in your closet extreme fear. I have burst into tears when someone mentions there may be a thunderstorm. I have very few lasting affects 3 years later but oddly and thankfully prior to my lightning incident (ground strike that threw me 20ft into a intersection during traffic) I had a heart murmur. After no one can find any sign of it

[comadant]

i tried to resist the joke but i couldnt... this video was so shocking

[AussieBaka]

What I love about you, Hank, is that you deliver incredibly depressing facts in such a calming manner that I still feel ok about it even if I shouldn't.
Thanks, man.

[ohahmenuts]

7!! 7 freaking lighting strikes!!! i would have locked myself in my house and never came out after 2

[tao_rt]

I got hit by side splash lightning about 2 years ago when walking to the store.  It was a nice rainy day and I was just minding my business, umbrella up - no hint of thunder - it wasn't even forecasted. Just "boom!"   like a camera flash in my eye and the thunder was like a shotgun.  I remember stiffening up and the umbrella fell out of my hand.  At first I couldn't feel my legs from my feet to a little over my knees, and my left arm went numb -I picked up my umbrella and forced myself to run at that point, as I was walking down a strip of the road where there's a cluster of electrical towers and didn't want to get hit again. If you've ever experienced a "charlie horse" and/or got hit in the funny bone - and if you've ever had your legs "fall asleep - combine those two sensations together and magnify it. That's what side splash felt like.  It was scary, but also kinda cool -in a disturbing way.

[DyingToLive]

I can tell you what happens when you're close as hell to a lightning strike. In my backyard we have a transformer (not megatron an electrical transformer) during a thunderstorm we did the old trick to see how close it was by counting the seconds from flash to sound. It was 1-2 seconds so it was in our neighborhood. Then a blinding flash of blue light, so bright it turned the entire inside of our house blue. What happens next is (what feels like) a powerful earthquake/shockwave violently shakes our house. Not a typical earthquake though, there was no tremor or build up... it went from normal to peak of tremor (I'd say a 5.0) at the same time the earthquake happens the loudest noise you could possibly imagine, a massive sonic boom of thunder. All this happened very very quickly. And the ground didn't shake for long. It was scary, such a sudden on come of sound and shaking scared the shit out of us, imagine one moment everything is normal and then suddenly without warning your entire room shifts. Our whole block was out of power for 5 days. I'm so happy I keep dogs inside, I know people that keep their dogs outside rain or shine and its just wrong to me. Had I been one of those people my dog would by dead, as the house was the reason we didn't get electrocuted (I think) or if not that, then the massive pool of water from the rain in our backyard would have been certain death because a cut cable was laying in it. Either way we all lived, the milk didn't. But despite this scare I still love lightning.

[sohee]

Ear drums rupture is NO JOKE.
Tinnitus hell is what you get.
You don't know how blessed you are if your hearing is perfectly fine.

[finn]

If you happen to be a forensic scientist you turn into the flash

[Goldfish_Vender]

Didn't Roy's grave get struck by lightning as well?

[kylecampbell]

Reads title
"The same thing that happens to everyone else"

[AshleyReinhardt]

Ironic how I'm scared of lightning yet feels fascinated by it every time. ^^