An Australian teenager has recounted the horrid moment she was struck by lightning after it hit her roof during a thunderstorm.
Bloom Kermode, 17, was scrolling on TikTok when a lightning bolt struck the roof of her home in Yandina Bli Bli Road in Queensland at 12:43 a.m. Friday.
“There was this big bang and everything went white and my whole body started shaking – everything was exploding,” Kermode told 10 News.
“Everything went white.
“Because I had my phone in my hands, the electric current went into me and my whole arm went numb, and it felt almost like I was having a seizure.”
She said she was lying in her room and about to go to bed when it happened.
“Everything was on fire, so I was like, ‘I need to get out of here,’ so I grabbed my dog, and I was out, and I left.
“The roof caved in, and my blanket was on fire, the side of my bed was on fire, and all the ports had come out and exploded. Everything was flaming up and stuff.
“It was pretty shocking.”
Kermode was one of the two women struck by lightning last night.
She was taken to Nambour Hospital with neck pain but was in a stable condition.
Another woman had minor burns after lightning struck her home on Coutts Drive, Burpengary, at 2:54 a.m., but was in a stable condition despite minor burns.
This came after severe thunderstorm warnings were issued for South East Queensland on Friday Morning, following the Sunshine Coast being inundated by lashing rainfall.
The warning from the Bureau of Meteorology was issued for communities in Gold Coast, Coolangatta, Beenleigh, Jimboomba, and Mount Tamborine.
“A surface trough is combining with an upper trough to cause thunderstorms and heavy showers in the southeast this morning,” the warning read.
The wet conditions came amid Australians commemorating the bravest among us this Anzac Day.
Rainfall overnight had led to Brisbane being inundated with rain today, resulting in flash flooding.
There is currently flash flooding on the Sunshine Coast, including Mooloolah Valley, Crosby Hill Rd, Nambour, and Neill Rd.
A man was taken to Nambour Hospital amid the flash flooding at around 3 a.m., but was in a stable condition.
