California teens Lexie Varga and Dylan Corliss may do a lot more hand-holding after a frightening encounter with nature. Varga is an incoming senior in high school, while Corliss is a junior.
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According to a doctor, the injuries could have been much worse had it not been for the fact that they were walking hand in hand. “It helped to diffuse the electrical current that ran through their bodies”, Dr. Stefan Reynoso, who examined them after the incident, told CBS Los Angeles.
The teenagers say a witness told them he saw the lightning bolt strike. Lexie added, “Next thing you know, we are on the ground and we gave each other the most terrified looks you could possibly imagine”.
“I can feel it coming back again”, Ed Kowalczyk once sang in his band Live’s seminal “90s scream to the gods, “Lighting Crashes.” “Like a rollin” thunder chasing the wind”, he growls.
Varga said she landed around three feet from where the couple had been standing.
The couple, feeling odd and “tingly”, decided to continue on to the burger joint for lunch. A doctor suspects the bolt first hit Dylan’s head, traveled through their hands exited through Lexie’s foot.
The couple says they are both doing just fine.
However, they did go see a doctor just to get an explanation for what happened.
Scientists estimate the chances of being hit by lightning are around one in a million.
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Ironically, lightning experts have been telling people to maintain a distance of at least five meters away from each other if they find themselves out in the open during a lightning storm.
