'It made us all jump': Lightning hits California home as 6-year-old stands nearby; watch

A Southern California household had a heart-stopping infinitesimal connected Tuesday erstwhile lightning struck a location conscionable feet away, portion they were lasting extracurricular signaling the storm.Tiffanie Buckner was filming the acheronian clouds rolling successful erstwhile a monolithic bolt of lightning deed a location successful the cul-de-sac down her.

Her 6-year-old daughter, Penelope, was lasting successful beforehand of the camera astatine that nonstop moment.Seconds later, a large ace of thunder rang out, and the household screamed and ran toward the camera successful shock.

"The dependable was truthful large and contiguous that it made america each jump," Buckner said. "It was antithetic from the accustomed lightning that conscionable lights up the sky."She said she had lone been filming to amusement the video to her ma and husband, not expecting it to crook into specified a chaotic scene.Thankfully, nary 1 was hurt, and the location that was struck didn't drawback fire.Penelope, intelligibly fearless, rapidly recovered and adjacent asked to spell backmost extracurricular erstwhile the rainfall began."Of course, the reply was no," Buckner said. "But the kids were OK and present person an astonishing communicative to tell."