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Man Tries To Capture A Lightning Storm Outside On Camera, Records The Scariest Moment Of His Life
When 38-year-old Daniel Modøl went outside to film a distant storm he didn’t expect it would get so close. He was safely standing on his terrace in Gjerstad, Aust-Agder, Norway and shooting lightning bolts flashing in the area. Nature, however, had planned something more.
While still in his flip-flops, Daniel witnessed a lightning strike leaving a crater in his backyard about 15-20 feet (4,5-6 meters) away from him. He wasn’t fast enough to record the near-instantaneous bolt, but he did document the aftermath.
Modøl decided to go back inside for the remainder of the storm. He found his ceiling fan off and burn marks all over the electrical outlet where his modem was. I’d say that’s a fair bargain, considering you just barely avoided getting blown to pieces.
More info: tv2.no (h/t: petapixel)
When 38-year-old Daniel Modøl was filming a distant storm, he clearly wasn’t aware of nature’s plans
He was standing on his terrace, capturing lightning bolts in the horizon, but suddenly everything came a lot closer
While still in his flip-flops, Daniel witnessed a lightning strike leaving a crater in his backyard
He also documented the terrifying aftermath
And his video inspired people to share their close encounters with lightning storms as well
What do you think ?
Joelle Jansen 7 years ago
Remember people, if you hear the thunder within like 3 seconds of the light, the next bolt can be close enough to hit you. Make sure to go inside when that happens!
Trav May 7 years ago
Lightning can strike 20 miles ahead of a storm. Thunder five seconds after a lightning strike means it's 1 mile away. Experts say that if you hear thunder, you're likely within striking distance!
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Iris Omri-Engler 7 years ago
Amazing and terrifying at the same time. To experience the real power of a lightning. I like thunder storms. But the beauty of it let me forget sometimes the danger behind somehow
Hayley Rodgers 7 years ago
We so rarely gets Thunder storms where I live but I still try to remember to stay inside, I think I've sat under my front porch once or twice. It's a good thing I have some sense of self-preservation or I would have been struck by lightning by now
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Hayley Lightcap 7 years ago
I love how their reaction was like, Yeah we're done let's just go inside
Michael Morris 7 years ago
When I was six I lived in an old farmhouse with the unusual property that the fuse box for the house was in the bathroom, right beside the toilet. I was taking a leak like boys do when lightning hit the house. An arc of electricity jumped from the fuse box to my left shoulder, down my arm and out my hand. To this day I feel fortunate that I am right handed.
Sondre Strøm Linde 7 years ago
Jeeej, norwegians FTW! We almost never have lightning, so this is pretty damn rare. Hurra for norge på boredpanda! ;)
Liliana V 7 years ago
Last year, around this time, I was outside in my backyard with my two sisters. We were standing on our balcony watching a storm, about 20 feet away was out Zip Line. I wish I could have recorded the lighting strike it. The wire was bright red for a second then the wire was black and it snapped. :( And the noise was deafening, I was in shock for like 3 minutes after I could barely breath I was TERRIFIED.
Kipper Mcgee 7 years ago
Here is my story. There was a huge storm in the middle of the night. Our family was asleep and all. Then BAM!! Lightning struck our swimming pool. It was extremely bright and very loud. I imaging the water could have amplified the light or whatever. I really believed I died(I was 7. cut me some slack). My heart was about to burst. Worst way to wake up. The second time, lightning struck somewhere in the street, but any type of metal shot out sparks a few metres out. The metal railing of a curtain created a spark and shocked my mother. She says that it also shot out of her thumb.
Trav May 7 years ago
The water reflecting the light would not have made any perceivable difference. The lightning bolt really was that bright. It's the same as instead of someone taking your picture with a flash from a few feet away, they held the camera flash directly in front of your face.
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Daria B 7 years ago
I dunno how close it was, but I can tell you it was close enough for a unique experience. It was a summer night and the weather was unstable. I was with my siblings and some friends hanging on the benches under the roof of our local library. Suddenly a storm hit so loud and bright that my vision, for a moment, jumped up. Literally, like the image on an analogue tv screen when the signal makes the screen jump up and down, or ehen there's a bug in the video, or something. Apparently it wasn't too close, though, since there were no craters or fires nearby afterwards. Still it was impressive.
Daria B 7 years ago
I mean, not a storm that hit, it was a lightening strike. Otherwise, the rain and the wind were not that much.
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Sheila Stamey 7 years ago
I think there was a spider on that hill that was killed well enough to suit me.
Sue McLean 7 years ago
I've been so close to getting hit by lighting several times in my lifetime. in 1968 I lived in OKlahoma...a bolt of lightning hit across the street just as I opened the door. it sent a garbage can high into the air.1983 I was sitting on the john when a lightning struck the ground in the back yard, hitting a pipe and rattling the toilet. Fast forward to 2004 in TN. I was driving down a fairly busy street when a bolt hit the other side of the road, sparks flew...other people pulled over to the side like I did. I was so scared to get back on the road for fear of it striking me! I still love storms though...even though here in CA we don't get them much.
Susan Levett 7 years ago
Umm, the previous lightning bolt didn't seem to be that far away! But glad they are safe 😁
Delia Hake 7 years ago
The clothes line was always going to be hit by lightning as it's made of metal and is a tall structure.
Daniel Yuhasz 7 years ago
Be careful- this website gets your e-mail to spam you when you sign in with Facebook. You realize what happened after you click.
Daniel Yuhasz 7 years ago
Saw lightning rod in my Tower- Necedah Tower (see Facebook) and the lightning rod began to glow at the tip- knew it was time to go down
Amanda Harker 7 years ago
You could see that the second lightning strike was much closer than the first one he filmed.
Bevin Smeith 7 years ago
I've been close to lighting before too, I was young using the computer there was no thunder in the area at all of a sudden I started to feel all the airs stand up like I was touching a van der graaf generator. The screen on the comouter was the old CRT's and it went all purple like i had a magnet on the screen, then BANG the computer poped and then smoke everywhere the power was out. The weird thing about this there was no more lightling that day at all the power was out for sometime as it took the powerboard 23 hours to get everythign in the area going up again. The lighting struck outside the house it went for a tree wrapped around it and hit the ground next to the house it must have traveled underground somewhere and jumped onto the power cables.
Ryan Vitiello 7 years ago
Why on earth would you stand next to a big metal poll during a thunderstorm?!
Ryan Vitiello 7 years ago
Why the hell would you stand outside next to a big metal poll during a thunderstorm?!
Carolyn M Perry 7 years ago
I'm surprised that nobody seems to know that lighting can come up through the ground. I have seen lighting come through dirt ground as this photographer was taking pictures in the mountains and he saw the before and the after pics and noticed this little purple light in the dirt. He said If I stood there I would not be showing you this now. I would not be safe on a wooden deck. I think that is a warning to go inside.
63angel 7 years ago
just a few weeks ago we had lightening strike the tree in my yard. A neighbor videotaped it. The tree ended up falling on my car. We thought it was just the wind blowing over the tree, but, when we looked closer, you can see the burn marks on the tree. On one of the pictures on the article, you can see the char marks from the lightening. http://www.stgeorgeutah.com/news/archive/2017/08/13/cgb-strangers-help-when-strong-winds-split-tree-burying-prized-mustang-during-massive-storm/#.WaXj8Mh96Um
Koko Sempai 7 years ago
Can you actually please stop this. Its getting really annoying for everyone (TvT ) that would be great
Katinka Min 7 years ago
He's damn lucky, he was standing on the floor boards and the air wasn't humid. This massive electricity travels further than the stuff we use in our households. A friend of mine was struck by lightning while she was inside (!) a hut in the mountains, just standing on the bare floor. She was knocked out and fortunately only mildly injured. The lightning had struck outside but travelled through the soil.
Justin Fisher 7 years ago
When I was a kid (12 or so) lightning hit the flagpole beside our house. Huge bang that shook the house while everything was lit up from the flash. Next day we saw that all the paint was gone from the flagpole!
Lynn Price 7 years ago
grab the fulgurite! it's a compound that is only created by cloud to ground lightening and varies by what is in the ground when its struck..fascinating and beautiful and les we forget deadly..
Lynn Price 7 years ago
grab the fulgurite! it's a rare mineral that is only made by cloud to ground lightening and the composition varies from whats in the ground but very cool and beautiful also if youre into the money aspect very expensive (i could care less for the money myself) and fascinating...
Timothy Woodbury 7 years ago
U know when lighting strike's close by me, my Voice had a strange feeling and almost can't talk. It struck about 100 yards away. and wow . Wasn't good on my voice.
PsychoPrincess 7 years ago
I remember when I was a kid my sister was playing a game of softball everyone's hair started slowly standing up. people looking around at each other thinking they all looked really funny. My father started freaking out and told everybody if they don't get on the ground now someone's going to die. People freaked screams crying but everyone laid down. 3 ft Away a huge Lightning Bolt hit the slight Hill behind the diamond. if my father didn't do what he did it would have been one of the kids. They would have been taller than that Hill.
PsychoPrincess 7 years ago
I also heard a story of my father's house having an orb of ball lightning travel through their attic and burnt the house upstairs really bad if you're curious you guys have to Google it ball lightning is quite a phenomenal phenomenon
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Nostalgic Hyena 7 years ago
I've seen a video of lightning striking the ground before. Yeah, it started a fire..
Zori the degu 7 years ago
Ouch, this man was quite unlucky. The roof of my apartment building got hit twice by a lighting, it sounded like someone released a bomb and the static electricity made all the hairs on my neck and back stand straight up. Really, lightings are scary!
BREAK YOUr perceptions 7 years ago
HEY KIDS! guess what? if you are close enough to see lightning YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO GET HIT BY IT! do yourself a favor, stay indoors during thunderstorms and the like.
thebridget 7 years ago
Not true. There have been a lot of thunderstorms in my area in the last month or so. I can always see the lightning, but it's over 20 miles away
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Victor Vakaras 7 years ago
So lightning strikes a few meters away and this mental giant doesn't go inside? Please don't reproduce.
Joelle Jansen 7 years ago
Remember people, if you hear the thunder within like 3 seconds of the light, the next bolt can be close enough to hit you. Make sure to go inside when that happens!
Trav May 7 years ago
Lightning can strike 20 miles ahead of a storm. Thunder five seconds after a lightning strike means it's 1 mile away. Experts say that if you hear thunder, you're likely within striking distance!
Load More Replies... Iris Omri-Engler 7 years ago
Amazing and terrifying at the same time. To experience the real power of a lightning. I like thunder storms. But the beauty of it let me forget sometimes the danger behind somehow
Hayley Rodgers 7 years ago
We so rarely gets Thunder storms where I live but I still try to remember to stay inside, I think I've sat under my front porch once or twice. It's a good thing I have some sense of self-preservation or I would have been struck by lightning by now
Load More Replies... Hayley Lightcap 7 years ago
I love how their reaction was like, Yeah we're done let's just go inside
Michael Morris 7 years ago
When I was six I lived in an old farmhouse with the unusual property that the fuse box for the house was in the bathroom, right beside the toilet. I was taking a leak like boys do when lightning hit the house. An arc of electricity jumped from the fuse box to my left shoulder, down my arm and out my hand. To this day I feel fortunate that I am right handed.
Sondre Strøm Linde 7 years ago
Jeeej, norwegians FTW! We almost never have lightning, so this is pretty damn rare. Hurra for norge på boredpanda! ;)
Liliana V 7 years ago
Last year, around this time, I was outside in my backyard with my two sisters. We were standing on our balcony watching a storm, about 20 feet away was out Zip Line. I wish I could have recorded the lighting strike it. The wire was bright red for a second then the wire was black and it snapped. :( And the noise was deafening, I was in shock for like 3 minutes after I could barely breath I was TERRIFIED.
Kipper Mcgee 7 years ago
Here is my story. There was a huge storm in the middle of the night. Our family was asleep and all. Then BAM!! Lightning struck our swimming pool. It was extremely bright and very loud. I imaging the water could have amplified the light or whatever. I really believed I died(I was 7. cut me some slack). My heart was about to burst. Worst way to wake up. The second time, lightning struck somewhere in the street, but any type of metal shot out sparks a few metres out. The metal railing of a curtain created a spark and shocked my mother. She says that it also shot out of her thumb.
Trav May 7 years ago
The water reflecting the light would not have made any perceivable difference. The lightning bolt really was that bright. It's the same as instead of someone taking your picture with a flash from a few feet away, they held the camera flash directly in front of your face.
Load More Replies... Daria B 7 years ago
I dunno how close it was, but I can tell you it was close enough for a unique experience. It was a summer night and the weather was unstable. I was with my siblings and some friends hanging on the benches under the roof of our local library. Suddenly a storm hit so loud and bright that my vision, for a moment, jumped up. Literally, like the image on an analogue tv screen when the signal makes the screen jump up and down, or ehen there's a bug in the video, or something. Apparently it wasn't too close, though, since there were no craters or fires nearby afterwards. Still it was impressive.
Daria B 7 years ago
I mean, not a storm that hit, it was a lightening strike. Otherwise, the rain and the wind were not that much.
Load More Replies... Sheila Stamey 7 years ago
I think there was a spider on that hill that was killed well enough to suit me.
Sue McLean 7 years ago
I've been so close to getting hit by lighting several times in my lifetime. in 1968 I lived in OKlahoma...a bolt of lightning hit across the street just as I opened the door. it sent a garbage can high into the air.1983 I was sitting on the john when a lightning struck the ground in the back yard, hitting a pipe and rattling the toilet. Fast forward to 2004 in TN. I was driving down a fairly busy street when a bolt hit the other side of the road, sparks flew...other people pulled over to the side like I did. I was so scared to get back on the road for fear of it striking me! I still love storms though...even though here in CA we don't get them much.
Susan Levett 7 years ago
Umm, the previous lightning bolt didn't seem to be that far away! But glad they are safe 😁
Delia Hake 7 years ago
The clothes line was always going to be hit by lightning as it's made of metal and is a tall structure.
Daniel Yuhasz 7 years ago
Be careful- this website gets your e-mail to spam you when you sign in with Facebook. You realize what happened after you click.
Daniel Yuhasz 7 years ago
Saw lightning rod in my Tower- Necedah Tower (see Facebook) and the lightning rod began to glow at the tip- knew it was time to go down
Amanda Harker 7 years ago
You could see that the second lightning strike was much closer than the first one he filmed.
Bevin Smeith 7 years ago
I've been close to lighting before too, I was young using the computer there was no thunder in the area at all of a sudden I started to feel all the airs stand up like I was touching a van der graaf generator. The screen on the comouter was the old CRT's and it went all purple like i had a magnet on the screen, then BANG the computer poped and then smoke everywhere the power was out. The weird thing about this there was no more lightling that day at all the power was out for sometime as it took the powerboard 23 hours to get everythign in the area going up again. The lighting struck outside the house it went for a tree wrapped around it and hit the ground next to the house it must have traveled underground somewhere and jumped onto the power cables.
Ryan Vitiello 7 years ago
Why on earth would you stand next to a big metal poll during a thunderstorm?!
Ryan Vitiello 7 years ago
Why the hell would you stand outside next to a big metal poll during a thunderstorm?!
Carolyn M Perry 7 years ago
I'm surprised that nobody seems to know that lighting can come up through the ground. I have seen lighting come through dirt ground as this photographer was taking pictures in the mountains and he saw the before and the after pics and noticed this little purple light in the dirt. He said If I stood there I would not be showing you this now. I would not be safe on a wooden deck. I think that is a warning to go inside.
63angel 7 years ago
just a few weeks ago we had lightening strike the tree in my yard. A neighbor videotaped it. The tree ended up falling on my car. We thought it was just the wind blowing over the tree, but, when we looked closer, you can see the burn marks on the tree. On one of the pictures on the article, you can see the char marks from the lightening. http://www.stgeorgeutah.com/news/archive/2017/08/13/cgb-strangers-help-when-strong-winds-split-tree-burying-prized-mustang-during-massive-storm/#.WaXj8Mh96Um
Koko Sempai 7 years ago
Can you actually please stop this. Its getting really annoying for everyone (TvT ) that would be great
Katinka Min 7 years ago
He's damn lucky, he was standing on the floor boards and the air wasn't humid. This massive electricity travels further than the stuff we use in our households. A friend of mine was struck by lightning while she was inside (!) a hut in the mountains, just standing on the bare floor. She was knocked out and fortunately only mildly injured. The lightning had struck outside but travelled through the soil.
Justin Fisher 7 years ago
When I was a kid (12 or so) lightning hit the flagpole beside our house. Huge bang that shook the house while everything was lit up from the flash. Next day we saw that all the paint was gone from the flagpole!
Lynn Price 7 years ago
grab the fulgurite! it's a compound that is only created by cloud to ground lightening and varies by what is in the ground when its struck..fascinating and beautiful and les we forget deadly..
Lynn Price 7 years ago
grab the fulgurite! it's a rare mineral that is only made by cloud to ground lightening and the composition varies from whats in the ground but very cool and beautiful also if youre into the money aspect very expensive (i could care less for the money myself) and fascinating...
Timothy Woodbury 7 years ago
U know when lighting strike's close by me, my Voice had a strange feeling and almost can't talk. It struck about 100 yards away. and wow . Wasn't good on my voice.
PsychoPrincess 7 years ago
I remember when I was a kid my sister was playing a game of softball everyone's hair started slowly standing up. people looking around at each other thinking they all looked really funny. My father started freaking out and told everybody if they don't get on the ground now someone's going to die. People freaked screams crying but everyone laid down. 3 ft Away a huge Lightning Bolt hit the slight Hill behind the diamond. if my father didn't do what he did it would have been one of the kids. They would have been taller than that Hill.
PsychoPrincess 7 years ago
I also heard a story of my father's house having an orb of ball lightning travel through their attic and burnt the house upstairs really bad if you're curious you guys have to Google it ball lightning is quite a phenomenal phenomenon
Load More Replies... Nostalgic Hyena 7 years ago
I've seen a video of lightning striking the ground before. Yeah, it started a fire..
Zori the degu 7 years ago
Ouch, this man was quite unlucky. The roof of my apartment building got hit twice by a lighting, it sounded like someone released a bomb and the static electricity made all the hairs on my neck and back stand straight up. Really, lightings are scary!
BREAK YOUr perceptions 7 years ago
HEY KIDS! guess what? if you are close enough to see lightning YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO GET HIT BY IT! do yourself a favor, stay indoors during thunderstorms and the like.
thebridget 7 years ago
Not true. There have been a lot of thunderstorms in my area in the last month or so. I can always see the lightning, but it's over 20 miles away
Load More Replies... Victor Vakaras 7 years ago
So lightning strikes a few meters away and this mental giant doesn't go inside? Please don't reproduce.
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