Lightning strike

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crab

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LOL, no, just a shitload of thunderstorms in the summer months. I was golfing one afternoon and it started to cloud up, like a moron I let a bigger moron talk me into playing the 2nd nine, we were walking, no cart. Right about hole#11 (the farthest distance to the clubhouse) it started to rumble, oh-oh, time to head back, then I began to smell that smell of ozone or whatever it is when a storm is overhead and the hair on my arm started to raise up, holy fuck!, I got flat to the ground as a lightning bolt (cloud to cloud) cracked directly overhead, then I got up and ran like Forest fucking Gump, I mean running through bushes, not around them, I was terrified more than I had ever been my whole life. I made it back to the clubhouse with just scrapes (the bushes). Lightning hit my Mom's house, knocked out the PCM in her car, fried her TV and blew a football-sized hole where wall outlet was. When she called me and told me about it I thought she was over exaggerating the deal until I got there, sure as fuck the outlet was blown to pieces and a big hole in the drywall, I called an electrician, he replaced 3 breakers that were fried and installed a new outlet for her and I fixed the drywall hole.

Its OK...relax. He's being a grammar nazi.