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Contributed by Jill Darling  —<\/p>\n

\u201cIt sounded like a bomb went off,\u201d said Pat Russell of Maple Street in Little Meadows. She and her daughter Carrie were relaxing in recliners last night when the loud explosion shook their home and caused items on shelves to fly off.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe den lit up like a red ball of fire,\u201d she exclaimed. They tried to calm their Golden Retriever, Brody, then looked around the house but didn\u2019t notice anything.<\/p>\n

Then they looked out the dining room window to see that one of their massive pine trees was a mangled mess on the ground. The tree was struck by a large bolt of lightning, causing it to crack from its top down to its roots and splinter into multiple pieces strewn across the lawn.<\/p>\n

Next-door neighbors, Tom and Kristie Hunsinger, experienced the same thing: the house shaking and things falling off shelves. They looked outside to see that their pickup truck and minivan were encased in tree limbs.<\/p>\n

\"Lightning<\/a>

Tom and Kristie Hunsinger survey the damaged tree that splintered across the lawn. Their two vehicles were hidden under branches that came down. An upstairs window of their home broke when a piece of the tree flew through it. Photo provided.<\/p><\/div>\n

An upstairs front window was broken, and an electrical wire had detached from the peak of the house. Penelec\u2019s truck came an hour later, blocking the road briefly to reattach the electrical wire.<\/p>\n

The next morning, their neighbor, Dave King, stopped by to assess the damage and, pointing out his truck window, said that he had planted those trees as a kid with his dad, Andy King, along with the previous homeowner, Bob Beeman. Dave King figured the row of trees had to be 70-years old.<\/p>\n

Whitetail\u2019s Bar & Grill owner, Jeff Kuhr, stopped to look at the destruction. \u201cHoly Hell,\u201d he exclaimed. When asked if he heard the explosion, he quipped, \u201cThe whole town heard it! Everyone\u2019s asking, \u2018How far did you jump?\u2019\u201d  <\/p>\n

Kuhr lives on Cemetery Road across a large field from the property. He said the strike lit up the entire field with whitish-blue light.<\/p>\n

The National Weather Service says it was a rare positive lightning strike conducting a positive charge from the clouds to the ground. Positive lightning strikes make up only about five percent of lightning strikes, according to the weather service.<\/p>\n

\"Lightning<\/a>

Tom and Kristie Hunsinger survey the damaged tree that splintered across the lawn. Their two vehicles were hidden under branches that came down. An upstairs window of their home broke when a piece of the tree flew through it. Photo provided.<\/p><\/div>\n

Not only did the townspeople of Little Meadows hear the explosive sound, but three miles away, Pete Darling of Warren Center was jolted by it and said, \u201cIt was the loudest sonic boom-like sound I\u2019ve heard in my life!\u201d<\/p>\n

The noise rattled the Darlings’ Siberian Husky, Kodak, and he ran around to the back of the house to be let into the basement, which is his refuge during loud storms, Darling said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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