4 people struck by lightning

Four people were struck by lightning in downtown St. Petersburg on Thursday while underneath a banyan tree at the corner of 3rd Avenue and Beach Drive.

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[LightHermes]

Hey guys I am the boy who was sent to bay front I am doing really okay I really am so glad all of us are doing okay I hugged my friends when it happened. I am no longer in pain and I only have strikes along my body

[corinneanderson]

Glad to hear they are recovering. Prayers to those involved.

[oreo.blizzard.]

There was 5 of us and everyone is doing okay you can see me in the video helping my friends and our friend who’s critical is actually a minor and shes my best friend and the sweetest girl in the planet and as soon as i got up i tried to help everyone and i screamed across the street and those two ladies came

[lauriepolden]

I played in that tree as a child. I remember that Banyan tree I was 14 when I moved to Saint Pete, and we played in that tree all the time.

[l.ls.]

Its a shame people do not know not to huddle under any type of tree during a lightning storm. Fortunate these folks survived hopefully without any long term issues.

[greendeane]

I was struck in Lithia on the 19th. I drove to the ER.

[mariemurphy]

Still to this day I cannot understand why people feel the need to run under trees when a storm is coming absolute worst idea ever lightning can strike miles and miles away from the actual storm and trees are the perfect conductors and not to mention in Florida something called out of the blue Lightning happens rare but it does happen and that's when there is no storm in sight

[Radmountainbiking]

I've lived in Florida for 55 yrs. and lightning is an almost ever present risk when outside even when it's not raining. Getting struck must be painful if you survive. I wouldn't mind dying from it.

[brinsonharris]

I prayed for the thunder and the rain to quietly pass me by-yie.

[DeathByFishing]

Everyone knows you never stand under a tree in a thunderstorm.

[jnero]

They lit up every room they walked into

[RodgerMudd]

The storms will get bigger. Warming phase.

[crazedblade]

goddamn they must have been shocked ... im so sorry

[chilltime]

The witness tried to do cpr but they said the kids weren’t bike tires so it didn’t work.

[mustaqimalfarabi]

Thats why you dont get close to a person who is going through heavenly tribulation

[christineweaver]

I knew a guy who was olfing, the closest shelter was a tree, he and his friend didnt make it.i saw recently on you tube some people were struck on a beach.whats going on?

[michaelleggieri]

Did crazy Grady the celebrity sheriff have anything to do with this

[Sandhillduck]

I pray for those people that I hope that I'm glad they're all right but they cannot be from Florida because we all know about lightning that's where the it comes from the trees last week or two weeks ago in Orlando a kid was struck next to a tree please if you're going to move to Florida lightning

[edwardknierim]

there lucky hes beholds satan from the sky like liighting

[Makedonac]

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