A mum who was struck by lightning in front of her six children and lived to tell the tale claims she can now sense when storms are coming.
Kimberly Krone's life changed forever in June 2009 when she was standing in the kitchen of her Forney, Texas, US home cleaning up after breakfast.
The mum grabbed a dirty pan and heard two loud booms – the area had been beset by around 1,200 lightning strikes in five minutes during a horrific storm.
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As she was standing in front of her children then-aged from six months to nine years, she was struck by a huge lightning bolt which had come through a recessed light in her kitchen roof.
The bolt bounced off the pan she was holding and hit her in the chest.
She recalled: “I picked it up like this and I moved it over, and before I could even get it to this hand, the lightning came through the recessed light.
“I can remember the pain, I can remember the burning smell – I felt one fire, and all I could think of was I wish it would hurry up and end.”
It did end, and her nine-year-old son Tristan called 911 for help.
The youngster told the dispatcher that “lightning came through the ceiling” and that Ms Krone was “hurting real bad”.
A recording of the call hears the boy begging for his mum not to die.
As the chaos was unfolding, another bold of lightening struck the home, this time blowing up the family computer in another room.
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It took emergency services 16 minutes to arrive, and she was rushed to hospital where she would spend the next three days.
While there, she suffered from seizures and her entire central nervous system shut down.
However, two years later, she told how she is now able to sense an oncoming storm, but it is not a pleasant experience.
She told ABC News: “I still hurt.
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“My chest will get real tight when the storm's coming, especially the closer it gets.
“As far as a lightning strike, you're always going to be scared. You're always going to be nervous.”
Ms Krone has not spoken about the life-changing incident since 2012.
Her last public appearance was in 2017, when she donated food to the Forney Food Pantry.
She is still thought to be living in the area where the lightening strike happened.
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