A Pennsylvania man was struck by lightning twice and lived to tell about it both times.
Jim Lamey, 58, of Mackeyville, Pennsylvania was washing the dishes inside his home Friday during a thunderstorm when he saw a flash outside.
“I was just scrubbing away,” Lamey said. “The next think I know I was waking up on a chair.”
When Lamey regained consciousness an hour later he felt a burning sensation in his stomach.
“I was lying on the couch and I got a phone call from him,” said Lamey’s daughter-in-law Missie Rugh. “He was all upset and at first I couldn’t understand what he was saying. He said, ‘I think I was hit by lightning.’”
Lamey was taken to the hospital and treated for blisters and burns on his stomach, according to WNEP.
Amazingly, it wasn’t the first time Lamey had been struck. Lamey says he was showering at the home his son now lives in six years ago when he was hit by a small bolt of electricity. The lightning’s force even chipped the porcelain tub. His son was able to save him from drowning.
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“I heard a big bang and boom and of course one of the booms was me,” he said. “It threw me right out of the bath and the pathway so my head was still in the tub and filling up with water. My mouth was hanging open and he pulled me out.”
The odds of getting struck by lightning in the U.S. in any given year are one in 700,000, and that’s only once.
“I said, ‘Maybe you better go enter the lottery,’” Rugh told WNEP. “You might win.”
