Lightning Strikes SUV While Driving

[22pharaoh22]

Did you fill out lottery after that? :)

[hondakid182]

You got a good shot lol

[603506147]

cute psycho driver :-D

[Jadekay78]

Would have frightened the life out of me too, man!!

[roxon1366]

When you hear "thunder" you're actually hearing the air molecules slamming back into each other because the lightning actually drives them apart. When lightning is close enough to you, or in this guys case, ON YOU, you won't hear it because more or less you're apart of it.

[bwo68]

Lightning shorted out the interior lighting on my 97 ford taurus when it got hit

[cooleo0]

i know i should feel bad but the way hes screaming is hilarious

[djjennyfey]

Are you aware that this video is used in defensive driving classes? I just got a ticket last month and had to enroll in a Texas defensive driving class. This video is in the program.

[Dakashizzlenizzle]

ROFL this is like double rainbow

[goigoitoy]

what happend right after you got hit? did the car stop running? did the electrical system go crazy?

that's so cool!

[crosswire7777]

i like the part where you casually clear your throat, then start screaming again lol

[NineTailsDemonFox]

holy fuck! double rainbow all the way with a lightning strike!

[Filipeeno]

Great video! I hope you're not offended when I say that someone needs to auto-tune this and make a viral video out of it.

[TheBlackPearlJam]

lol right after the lightening strikes car adds keep popping up below hahaha. i love the horn haha

[PwnagePC]

You slamming the horn made the video go from serious to hilarious, lol.

[vixvixen88]

0:13 - Sounds like Will Farrel lolol

[vfIskullangel]

@vixvixen88 LMAO! It does! all he needs is the cougar in the back seat :D

[vixvixen88]

0:09 I kept replaying it. It sounds like a gunshot. Pretty crazy shit. Where was the majority of the damage? By the way, I know it's not a laughing matter but I couldn't help but chuckle.

[mos3ef]

The lightning strike didn't seem to generate any sound when it struck your truck. Or did it?

[mistervova11]

the guy infront of you did he respond?

[faffaflunkie]

And the Toyota didn't accelerate out of control? You missed a big payday.

[Vblogg14]

this may be one of the funniest videos on youtube. watching just once doesn't give it any justice, it gets funnier every time. oh yea glad your not dead by the way

[tymiesoe]

Dude, your reaction is awesome.

[JBofBrisbane]

When lightning strikes, most of the thunder goes out from the main shaft of the return stroke. If you or your car is at the bottom, most of the sound goes out over the top of you, and you don't hear it as a result.

Simple rule of thumb: if you hear thunder, the lightning's missed you.

[koovah]

#OMG

[iBaLinedancer]

Hope you changed your shorts?? LOL

[RaNdOmPeOpLeSsHoW]

once i was like holding a mike connected to my friends ps3 and then a HUGE lightning bolt struck right by his house and we all heard it, then i got like a huge shock in my arm like from the mike. hahaa.

[KINGELVIS1984]

omg!!!! :O

[BigDickMcGirk]

Haha! "Fucking lightning!" haha.

[Celly222]

Thank god, the horn still works lol.

Awesome stuff!

[jperson2007]

@mooreentstudios No, no electricity, or even the hair-standing-on-end feeling!

[QuantumLeap365]

best reaction hands down!

[igotitbad4seanpenn]

LMFAO!!! ok this is great!!! i love your reaction. i'm sharing this on FB!!

[RLhockey203]

this is incredible and hilarious at the same time loool

[thenecrophagist]

Hahaha HOLY FUUU

[Polarbear8965]

omg!!! ur lucky ur camera was on lmao that was scary!

[slowlearner12]

haha "holy fu...." (to be continued)

[djtorule]

OMG, time to swerve and crash into something! j/k

Great capture!

[Nibroc99]

OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!! THAT IS SO COOL... I mean, I feel bad for you, that must have been SO scary... So, that was pretty odd. Talk about being at the wrong place at the wrong time... Also, i showed everyone this vid; they will never drive in a thunderstorm again. By the way, were you chasing a tornado?

[Why2bless]

Wow.

[666tReaper]

haha the reaction was hilarious but hey this is a once in a life time experience =P

it's a wicked story and an even better thing to have it on tape!!! ^_^

[TheFRiNgEguitars]

OMG the car was just struck by f'ing light - NING! horn, horn, horn ROFL

[Stantje1996]

you are FUCKIN lucky!

[stormspinner1]

Glad you're okay. How much damage to the truck? Holy ... cow. LOL 5/5 stars!

[Benuova]

well who wouldnt freak the fuck out if lighting just struck RIGHT THERE? am I right?

[DrFlanigan]

"We'll get a shot of that pretty soon"

LOL

[tubez4321]

I can't stop watching this. It's one of my all-time favorites. Love the freaking out, beeping, then freaking out again.

[TheFRiNgEguitars]

Being that you're okay, hope you're not offended, but this video is hilarious :D

[Wiggymaster]

You don't hear thunder when you're this close to a strike. Thunder is generated from the huge expansion of superheated air which breaks the speed of sound, and moves out from that center point. However, if you're at the focal point (or near enough to the focal point) of a strike, you'll hear nothing, because the shockwave never hits you.

[Wiggymaster]

You don't hear thunder when you're this close to a strike. Thunder is generated from the huge expansion of superheated air which breaks the speed of sound, and moves out from that center point. However, if you're at the focal point (or near enough to the focal point) of a strike, you'll hear nothing, because the shockwave never hits you.

[marcy911]

i liked the guy's reaction!!

it was funny...but that must have been frightning! :3

[mephist7]

you cant hear thunder because it was right on top of him and it spreads out i guess. say if u were somewhere else you would of hearded it but just because it was on top of him he didnt hear. i hope that made any sense

[mephist7]

no wonder you started panicking and stuff. I would shit myself tbh.

[johnnylt82]

u wont hear thunder u never do when ur that close strange i no but true.

[trggerfingor]

as soon as we are in the clear.. bam!!!! ahhHH!! that was hilarious!

[williwonti]

Game over man! Game over!

[GSDubz]

Did you feel the bolt itself at all? Did it shake the truck at all?

[lightningalex1]

that was wicked!, and so hilerious!

[softballerchick08]

omg haha. im laughing so hard right now.

"omg!!! *honk honk honk honk* ahh!!"

i probably would have freaked out too.

but what made you honk the horn so many times? just asking. =)

[coolgpink123]

that waz funny when he waz curseing but i didn't hear any thunder either?

[ArxVirtus]

The "thunder" was the clap you heard when the lightning struck. It was probably attenuated by the limited capability of the camera's microphone.

[brodie31]

when lightning hits you or hits the vehicle youre in you dont hear the thunder

[peerje]

Wow. This is incredible video! Great footage!

[thunderwolf2012]

lol and lmfao that horn made the whole vid

[jperson2007]

I know lol. That cracks me up now.  I should edit the video to make it sound like I'm also changing radio stations while honking the horn.

[WOLFENCT]

Did you feel any of the electrical charge when you vehicle was hit? Amazing video, thanks for sharing.

[bmwman87]

"OMG OMG horn horn horn horn OMG"

other cars just think he got cracy after his car got hit by lightning lol but i undrstand he was surprised, i had did the same with my car :D

[sciontcdude]

@bmwman87 reason he did the honking of the horn is to alert those in front of him to stop

[shannodono2]

lol this video was sooooooooo hilarious

[meridgey]

i don't mean to be offensive to the video, but i didn't hear any thunder...?

[jperson2007]

I wondered about that myself, why there was no huge clap of thunder! That's a great question.

[Larsie538]

the thunder can only be heard when you are further away from the lightning strike since the sound expands to the side not downwards

[akseljoy]

my guess is because when u seee lighting u can count till the thunder and how many seconds = miles away the lighting was so since it hit u it prolly made the noise at the same time and u were to scared to hear it or reconizge it but idk lol but i love ur vid, i put on my facebook and myspace

[PositivelyBored]

It's because the thunder is the lower frequencies. The farther away you are, the deeper sound you hear. Much like fireworks, except a larger scale. The sound of an exploding m100 is a "snap bang" up close, but 2 miles away you don't hear a snap but a concussion and boom. Because the lightning strike came from the vehicle and went outward, the snap explosion is audible.

[MclarencarV]

@jperson2007I think it wasn't the main bolt that hit you, but one of the smaller, secondary bolts looking for somewhere to ground. That main bolt could have been a long way away.

[Breneric]

@meridgey Err... Thunder is the sound of lightening , sometime it takes time for it to reach our ears.

[vixvixen88]

@meridgey Thunder sound is made right after lightning. When you're up close it sounds more like one sharp crack than that low rumbling echo we hear from afar.

[CjGaughan]

@meridgey When lightning strikes CLOSE up there is no rolling thunder...its just one loud BANG!!!!!!!!!!

Normal "booming thunder" comes from the echo of that loud bang.

[goigoitoy]

@meridgey um! because he was the strike zone, i think if your more then so many feet away from the strike you hear it. try to look it up on line or soemthing

[kellyelliebrooke]

haha real funny!

[tankie89]

the cars tires do absolute shit, its the engineering of the cars shell which sends the electrcity around the the body work of the car, so everything inside remains fine. believe me if lightening can make it from the sky to the ground it isn't gonna be stopped by 2 inches of rubber.

[governer180]

shocking, cars are lightning protected, don't worry, I hope your ok man

[LazyMC23]

damn i would have shit myself

[luther349]

getting your car hit is the safest thing to get hit if your going to take a direct hit from lighting. the cars tires ground it. but it will fry the cars electronics.

[SPCkeith]

yeah had that happen to me in a 91' dodge ram charger. it was freaky stuff man. the rubber in the tires grounds you out so yes you are indeed safe.

[erasmosis]

Damn!  Did it hurt?

[sonicman2500]

HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!!

[psykospike]

dude, that was fuckin awesome.

i heard about some guys suv getting struck by lightning and it completely reversed the polarity of his car, he took it to NASA to figure out what was wrong with it.

[key0blade]

i was reading this on Bio on the I survived stuff, good thing you had it all on tape, would have been a boring read.

[stewpeezy72]

HOLY SHIT!!! AMAZING!!!!

[Xxero0]

i cant tell but, was your car struck by lightning?

[JCasachick]

OMFG!!

This is absolutly amazingly funny!!

i would have reacted the exact same way!!

Awesome video!!

[astralninja1]

LLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO­L

[Dapotatoez]

"OH MY GOD!!THE CAR'S BEEN STRUCK BY FUCKIN LIGHTNING!OH MY GOD!"

*honk* *honk* *honk* *honk*

makes me rofl everytime.

[HentMas]

GOD!! i would have yelled just like that "OH MY GOD, MY CAR JUST GOT STRUCK BY FUCKING LIGHTNING!!!!" hahahaha

[cesarchere]

that was great!!!

[codymaxed]

wow nice its actually real

[TEgnoto89]

ahahaha that reaction made me laugh so hard i almost just woke up my room mate

[DrachenClawStudios]

THe Way You Reacted XD

[Aircaster]

i know! xD

THE WAY U REACTED

was hilarious.

lol, i'll try not to laugh but ur not hurt right, so i'll just laugh some more!

ur funny when ur scared! xD but i geuss i would've done the same....but not that freaked out! xD gaaahhhh, i'll stop teasing u now, my b (this is SO goin on my faves) 5*

[jperson2007]

haha don't worry, I fully expected to make people laugh by sharing this video, and, ten years later, it makes me laugh too XD facepalm

[halofilms687]

hahaha just the way you freaked out

[jperson2007]

I know lol. I facepalm sometimes looking back on it.

[djay91]

haha "OOH MY FUCKIN' GOD, MY CAR WAS JUST STRUCK BY LIGHTNING" ahha.

my house just got struck by lightning.

i think haha, no flames but i think i kinda peed lol.

[W7ENK]

Nice! Lucky you didn't get burned or electrocuted!

What's your call?

73.

[jperson2007]

Yeah I think so too :) My handle is KC0GCV but I believe my license expires soon.

[SEGOVIA1992]

dude i would of shit my pants

[thistleflowers]

im just curious, why did you hit the horn so much?

[jperson2007]

I was trying to get the RV in front of me to stop.

[thistleflowers]

Oh ok, I thought so. Did they stop to help you?

[jperson2007]

I'm pretty sure they sped up XD  but I can't say I blame 'em.

[keosskillz]

i guess u didnt pray enough lol

[misskia81]

AWESOME!!!!!

[darkrai1007]

lol

[kskcsfan]

talking about the rain shaft then the lightning said I want some attention lol!

[Exotic47]

wow, holy fuck lol, that's just too bad xD

[tubez4321]

Oh my f$cking god, this brought tears to my eyes - I was laughing so hard. Thank goodness my boss didn't see me watering up, woulda thought I was crying or hysterically sobbing. Your reaction is priceless. "OH MY GAAAAARD!" Love how you continue to freak out after you beep at the car ahead of you. Wish the video were longer so we could hear more reactions. :D Favorited.

[NatethePlate]

it looks like there is smoke in the car?

[jperson2007]

Yes, that's the reason I freaked out like it did lol. The lightning burst the HAM radio antenna cable in four places, filling the interior with smoke.

[joesmoe71]

Just goes to show, it always pays to pack an extra pair of undies while storm chasing!

A+ reaction dude!

[fenderguitarist05]

good thing u were in a 4Runner. quality vehicle right there haha. we used to have one, they are still my favorite trucks. That must be the scariest thing ever gettin hit by lightning.

[45Thunderbird]

Your dramatics were...dramatic lol

About a month ago, I was walking across my high school campus and a red bolt struck a tree about 50ft away. Knocked me down and blinded me for about 30 seconds, excessively loud too. Id hate to hit by something like that.

[Lynxfly]

Look up how many people get struck by lightning in the US every year. It's a pretty decent number for something that is so rare. That's pretty much the same reaction I had when it struck my tent out camping. My ears couldn't stop ringing and I burnt my feet because thats where the lightning grounded.

[winchuni22]

Oh my garrrrrrrrd! lightniiiiiiiiiing! haha brilliant. Must have been shit scary.

[bbfreak101]

OH MY GOD! HOLY FU.....

[AtmosphereWrath]

HOLY CRAP MAN!!!!

I had lightning strike the neighbors gutter when I was outside watching a storm. The percussive blast knocked me off my feet. I would say it was 40feet from me. I was so freaked out I was hyperventilating rapidly.

[BALLlSLlFE]

I'm pretty sure someone just set off a firecracker in the passenger seat followed by a bad acting job.

[jperson2007]

Okay, how would you explain the flat tires, police car, fried magnet, and weld marks on the tire rims? There are plenty of hoaxes on YouTube, but I can assure you this strike was real :)

[fodao42]

Dude your reaction is the best! The horn honking wins!

To anybody saying he overreacted: I've had lightning strike 2-3 blocks away and I can say even *that* kind of encounter pumps you up with much adrenaline you want to pop. I couldn't imagine it 3 feet away!

[thistleflowers]

fodao42... YES i agree, lightning struck close to my apartment 5 days ago and i thought i'd never stop shaking and freaking out.

[NoWattz]

It's amazing how hundreds of thousands of volts at tens of thousands of amps can make a person continuously spew expletives.(especially the 4 letter ones)It happens to everyone. :) I saw alot of smoke and sparks. Was that the coax evaporating, or your equipment? maybe both?? Did you happen to survey the internal damage of the radio?

[o968u]

HAHA great video but do you think you overreacted a little? I mean I have never had my vehicle struck so I don't know how I would have reacted but still, you were quite hysterical! Also why did you keep honking? Did you think that would somehow cause your car to be unstruck...LOL!!!!!!!!

Like I said though, great video.

[jperson2007]

hehe I don't think anyone can really prepare for such an exprience. But the real reason I panicked is in the description... when the interior of the truck filled with smoke I thought I was caught between electrified doors and an engine fire. Looking back, I realize now the current dissipated quickly so it would have been okay to get out. It's just something you don't want to be wrong about ;)

[MyCollection1120]

lol honk your horn that will deginatly fix it x]]

[jperson2007]

I was trying to summon help from the RV in front of me, but they continued on.

[Ralfyaka]

damn n u were storm chasing? shit n u sound like chris 4rm family guy (no disrespect)

[DeerHunting2008]

did it hurt any of your ham radios

[carlwod]

they set-up something like this on 'top gear' at a powerplant.

good vid, good reaction by the way :o)

[stormguy07]

The top gear video, does no justice of what lightning can do. They only use 800,000 volts. Lightning can hit with up to 100,000,000 volts!!

[1BrknHrtdRomeo]

ok...where ever you are...i am NEVER driving there xD

[jamescooling]

i guess you were blasting your horn to signal the people in front

what did they say when you told them or were they already aware?

brilliant video by the way

[jperson2007]

Hi James, yes I was trying to honk at the RV in front of me, but they never stopped.

[jamescooling]

i see lol, do you know them then or were they the only people on the road at the time?

[jperson2007]

They were the only folks on the road and I didn't know them... probably retired folks who wanted to get the heck out of there. I wonder if somehow a "step leader" might have gone up off their RV, sort of "setting up" my truck to be hit. I guess the HAM antenna was the tallest pointed object for miles around.

[surefirefan]

Wow I would had crapped in my pants :P, I bet I would of freaked out more then you :D ke5rrh 73s.

[geniusz85]

o kurwa ! amazing!

[MDHmodder]

and... and your car still works?

not like that car that blew up

[jperson2007]

Yes, it started right back up about 30 minutes after the strike. A chip was fried, but that's about it; the truck runs fine 7 years later.

[joedawinger]

wow that must have been an awsome experience

[Richie926]

listen u can hear him honk the horn 9 times

[jperson2007]

lol yeah I was trying to get the attention of the RV in front of me. I was like "Hey! Stop! I'm ****ed!!"

[Richie926]

OMG OMG OMG FUCKEN GOD thats priceless

[jackdench101]

wow. all i can say is good job you were in your car. by the sounds of it youd hae been fried

[galbro48026]

theres another video here on you tube on car struck by lightning, you actually dont hear the thunder only if you were about 15 feet away from the strike because of the sound barrier created by the heat wave of the lightning. very interesting.

[oxigen67]

''OMG!!! the car has just got struck by a FUCKING LIGHTINING!!%$#@^%$#'' lol dude that was HILARIOUS, you might have had upseted God, he reached a pointing finger at ya :].

[thadman123]

This is great, absolutly great.

73 de KE5RLZ

[kreepydoll]

Haha I love your reaction. Its awesome! Cool footage =]

[GonnaPwnU]

lol... "in the clear" a few miliseconds later... bang XP sweet.

[TBlake34]

Well done on the pause to catch your breath, followed immediately by more yelling. Haha. Course you never know how you react to get blasted by lighning until it happens to you...

[CSXRP]

Lol.

[tjyui]

exhagerado

[SatoriSoul]

Rofl famous last words "since we're in the clear" ^_^

Good to know your OK, hope it went well with the insurance company.

[jperson2007]

hehe yeah that makes me laugh too. I don't use that saying much these days *nervously looks around* The insurance covered all the damages, thankfully! Lightning is covered under Comprehensive insurance.

[DrylineMedia]

I was struck in 2004 and was outside the chase vehicle holding the camera. Plenty of colorful metaphors will fly from you mouth at times like that!

[DJMONKAY]

damn that shit must have scared you. Now that you look back on what happened what do you think. I'm glade you were okay and escaped with no injuries.

[jperson2007]

Thanks for that! For a couple of months after this I was very scared of lightning, but after a while that went away. It was such a one-on-a-million event, I figure it won't happen again anytime soon, if ever. I guess I'm still trying to figure out if there's a reason why this happened, or if it was just by chance.

[AmericanFabricator]

It's hard to believe your vehicle's electronics were not taken out.

[jperson2007]

The lightning flattened three tires, took out the HAM radio, and also destroyed a chip in the truck's engine used to regulate cruise control. So, some electronics were damaged, but I was also shocked that the truck started right back up later on. There are also bits of melted copper in the upholstery from where the antenna cable burst in three places.

[mspscbl]

That was pretty tight.

[BeechSundowner]

Wow, unbelievable, glad you came out of it ok!