While it’s usually a good idea to charge your devices before a storm, one Alabama teen recently learned that it may be a better idea to stay off them while you do.
Lisa Henderson, 19, of Russellville, said she was scrolling on social media during a Sunday thunderstorm when she suddenly saw a bright light.
“As I was watching a video, that’s when something struck,” she
told Times Daily.
“After that I heard a loud pop. After the loud pop all I heard was ringing in my ears.”
Henderson realized a bolt of lightning had traveled through an extension cord and the charger she was using while holding onto her phone.
“Luckily, I thought to throw my phone,” she told
19 News.
“If I would’ve kept it, I could’ve been electrocuted even more than I was.”
Henderson told the station this was not her first experience, and said she was also struck by lightning as a child.
But after, she began to feel tingling in her hands that spread to her right arm and then her shoulder.
In the ambulance to the hospital, she also struggled to answer basic questions about herself.
Doctors told Henderson laying on her left side had made it harder for the electrical current to reach her heart.
“They said if I was a little bit smaller and if it was on the other side, it probably would have done more damage because that’s closer to the heart,” she told Times Daily.
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While she said the experience was frightening in the moment, Henderson tried to keep things light in the days that followed.
“Hey, if you want to know how my day went, it was a shocking experience,” she texted family members after the incident.
