I remember standing on the 9th TEE box at a Calgary Golf course just after a HUGE rainfall. We were soaked to the bone but it was the last hole and it finished (like most do..) at the clubhouse so we figured we'd just play it out. So we're standing there getting ready to hit our drives and it gets DEAD quiet aside from a barely audible very low buzzing noise (sort of when your ears equalize with that ringing tone).
We all look at each other thinking, hmmm that's kinda strange when all of a sudden everyone's hair immediately stands up on end (where it WASN"T pasted to our skulls, from the rain..) and we all sorta' froze.
As we start dropping our clubs, there was a MASSIVE Flash and a bit of a weird smell and then everything seemed to be back to normal. We figure the lightning must have struck the Bow River which was only about 20 or 30 feet from where we were standing !
That's the closest I've ever come to being hit by lightning. Freaky stuff for sure...
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