it was a rainy and extremely windy monday in Broward County. I don't know, streets flooded along a one a the storm knocked down tree branches in Davie. It ruined the roofs of some of the portables at Indian Ridge Middle School and it did not spare homes in this community. We had to run for the back of the house. But the whole part started flying away. It got so bad. You can see where pieces tore away from some of the homes here. Okay, more side. I see it everything blood and I was there blood on like to blow off. It's like a train. I heard it move my golf cart touch feet away. The break was our, that's how I knew something had happened. Diego Lopez says part of his roof collapsed. We were just talking and she was like, oh there's a tornado warning and I'm like for real. And right after she said that it started, Cruz went around the community making sure people were okay and their homes were safe, evacuating those houses with the worst damage I had. My crew's going throughout the development to check to see if there was any other life threatening damage or anybody else in need of any type of rescue. If there's proof I am a survivor driving in this kind of weather can be dangerous. Found a boom, boom, ask Ernesto Delhomme Tae F. H. P. Troopers confirmed the car damage he experienced on alligator alley was thanks to a lightning strike going to the road and hit me a lighting I saw like in um and the car is broken in pompano beach. Another close call to city employees are lucky to be alive. After lightning hit very close to the boat, they were on to be safe. They were taken to the hospital to get checked out. As for the residents inside this mobile home neighborhood in Davie, they're thankful it wasn't worse. Long as nobody was hurt. It's just physical damage that can be repaired
Lightning that struck a moving vehicle leaves a 7-foot gouge on Florida highway
Updated: 7:57 PM EDT Jun 16, 2021
A man driving on a Florida highway was left uninjured after lightning struck his vehicle Monday morning, according to officials.The lightning strike damaged the compact SUV the 48-year-old was driving and left a 7-foot-long, 4-inch-wide gouge in the pavement, according to Florida Highway Patrol (FHP). The man, who police didn't name, was driving on Interstate 75 in Broward County when the strike occurred, during a heavy rainstorm, FHP said.CNN affiliate WPLG identified the driver as Ernesto Delhonte and spoke to him at the scene of the accident."I saw a light and ... I don't know what happened," said Delhonte. "But I survived. I am alive. It's a miracle for me."The electrical system and roof antenna of the man's Nissan Rogue was damaged due to the strike, according to FHP, which left the vehicle disabled. The car came to a stop half-mile north of where the lightning strike occurred, according to WPLG."A typical cloud-to-ground, actually cloud-to-vehicle, lightning strike will either strike the antenna of the vehicle or along the roofline," reads the National Weather Service's (NWS) website. "The lightning will then pass through the vehicle's outer metal shell, then through the tires to the ground."The vehicle was towed from the scene and a roadway repair crew was notified of the pavement's damage, according to FHP.Last month, two people were injured in Walton County, Florida, when a lightning strike sent a chunk of highway through the windshield of a truck."The energy from a lightning strike has to go somewhere," CNN meteorologist Haley Brink said about that incident. "And when lightning strikes an object, such as pavement, it can cause that object to "explode" due to the lightning's pressure blast wave which is caused by the sudden superheating of the air surrounding the lightning strike."Lightning strikes the U.S. about 25 million times a year, according to the NWS, and it kills 20 or more people in the U.S. each year.
A man driving on a Florida highway was left uninjured after lightning struck his vehicle Monday morning, according to officials.
The lightning strike damaged the compact SUV the 48-year-old was driving and left a 7-foot-long, 4-inch-wide gouge in the pavement, according to Florida Highway Patrol (FHP). The man, who police didn't name, was driving on Interstate 75 in Broward County when the strike occurred, during a heavy rainstorm, FHP said.
CNN affiliate WPLG identified the driver as Ernesto Delhonte and spoke to him at the scene of the accident.
"I saw a light and ... I don't know what happened," said Delhonte. "But I survived. I am alive. It's a miracle for me."
The electrical system and roof antenna of the man's Nissan Rogue was damaged due to the strike, according to FHP, which left the vehicle disabled. The car came to a stop half-mile north of where the lightning strike occurred, according to WPLG.
"A typical cloud-to-ground, actually cloud-to-vehicle, lightning strike will either strike the antenna of the vehicle or along the roofline," reads the National Weather Service's (NWS) website. "The lightning will then pass through the vehicle's outer metal shell, then through the tires to the ground."
The vehicle was towed from the scene and a roadway repair crew was notified of the pavement's damage, according to FHP.
Last month, two people were injured in Walton County, Florida, when a lightning strike sent a chunk of highway through the windshield of a truck.
"The energy from a lightning strike has to go somewhere," CNN meteorologist Haley Brink said about that incident. "And when lightning strikes an object, such as pavement, it can cause that object to "explode" due to the lightning's pressure blast wave which is caused by the sudden superheating of the air surrounding the lightning strike."
Lightning strikes the U.S. about 25 million times a year, according to the NWS, and it kills 20 or more people in the U.S. each year.
