Presumably as a high-five to the nation’s first president, Thor struck the Washington Monument with a lightning bolt Sunday night, taking out the structure’s elevator and forcing its closure for a day. And this person captured the electrifying moment on their camera. Per someone else there: “Ooooh I missed it!”

Proving Thor is probably more of a bowler, this is a video of a kid hitting an 88MPH ball (maybe it was trying to time travel!) at Topgolf during a thunderstorm and the ball getting struck by lightning. Per Bill Murray’s character Carl Spackler in Caddyshack: “I’d keep playing. I

In be careful what you wish for news, this is a video of Isabella pretending to summon lightning, but then actually summoning lighting. Details while I see if I can’t muster up a storm to leave work early today: Last summer I was trying to predict the lighting for a

This is some security cam footage from Wautoma High School in Wautoma, Wisconsin of a lightning bolt absolutely wrecking a defenseless pine tree. What Zeus has against the Ents, I’m not sure. Per the video, “So the National Weather Service slogan ‘When Thunder Roars Go Indoors’ please heed that advice

This is a video of 16-year old Russian soccer (football) player Ivan Zaborovsky getting struck by lightning during a warmup. Amazingly, he survived the incident with only a scar where he was wearing a metal necklace, and was back on the field three weeks later. Me? I would have been