Lightning bolt strikes tree right in middle of trunk, watch viral video

We all know what a lightning can do and how we must keep away from standing under trees during thunderstorm. However, if you still need more reason to remember this, take a look at this viral video.

Shared on Twitter by Wonder of Science, the footage displays a lightning bolt hitting a tree right in the middle of the trunk. "This is why you should never stand under a tree during a storm," read the caption of the post.

Watch the video here:

After being uploaded on the internet, the video has garnered around 30,000 views and thousands of likes. It has left netizens in shock.

While a user wrote, "That poor tree ain't ever growing leaves again," another said, "Standing under a tree is literally the worst place to be. This is the most unsafe place to be during a storm." A third user added, "Approximately how far from the tree would a person have to be to make an easier lightning rod thqn the tree itself? I thought Humans were pretty good about being a ground in a lightning storm so as such you get near something that will ground out sooner."

The location where the incident happened is not yet known.

In the meantime, in another shocking episode, a 15-year-old girl in the US survived a lightning strike that hit her house in Pennsylvania in May.

The lightning went through Giana Scaramuzzo's pinky finger and out of her leg. The teenager was unharm after the incident and was treated.

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