Lightning Strikes I-10 in North Florida, Sending Chunk of Road into Pickup
It looks like a scene from a movie... But it's not... it happened in North Florida yesterday, on Interstate 10.
The Walton County, Florida Fire Rescue team posted the shocking photos to social media... saying...
"Just after 7:30 AM this morning, WCFR was dispatched to a traffic crash near mile marker 81 eastbound on I-10. Lightning struck the roadway, causing a chunk of the road to fly through the windshield of the truck.
Both occupants of the vehicle were transported with injuries.
Fortunately, most of the bad weather is past us now, but please be careful out there this morning. Slow down and be on the lookout for storm damage and debris in the roadways."
When lightning travels from cloud to ground, it can heat the air around it to upwards of 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit. That is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.
What can happen is a dangerous transfer of energy between the lightning itself and whatever object it hits.