High school sweethearts Dylan Corliss and Lexie Varga were taking a stroll in Claremont, California, when lightning suddenly struck them.
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According to a doctor, the injuries could have been much worse if the two teens had not been holding hands.
Dr Stefan Reynoso says that their hand-holding helped “diffuse the electrical current” which entered through Dylan’s head and then exited through Lexie’s foot. I can not speak for teens Dylan and Lexie, a Claremont, Ca. couple who were actually struck by lighting this week, but I would venture to say that the love that bonds them together is powerful- powerful enough, at least, to save them from being electrocuted by lightning. “They were lucky they were holding hands”. “The chance of getting hit by lightning is very uncommon and perhaps one in a million,”; Reynoso told CBS LA.
‘It was more of shove and it felt like I was getting hit over the head with metal or something, ‘ Dylan told KCAL.
Corliss recounted that they went out to get some food when the lightning struck them.
The next time you see lightning in the Bay Area, you may want to reach for someone’s hand – it could save your life! ‘I kind of thought there was an quake.’.
Lexie’s anxious mother had heard the lightning and immediately text her daughter to check the couple was safe, but her daughter reassured her that she was alright.
“Holding hands is a good thing because if we hadn’t, we wouldn’t have shared the strike”, said Corliss.
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“I think we’re just happy to be here”, Vagra added.
