Lucky strike! Shocking moment man’s umbrella is hit by LIGHTNING and knocked out of his hand during a storm – but he somehow escapes without getting hurt
- Romulus McNeill is seen walking through a rainstorm around the Academy for Technology and Academics near Conway, South Carolina on Friday afternoon
- School guidance counselor holds keys in his right hand and umbrella in his left
- Suddenly he is jolted as a bolt hits the sidewalk and he drops the canopy
- He picks up the object and dashes to the parking lot to head home to eat
- McNeill shared clip online and said: ‘It jolted me honey. I just knew I was done’
- Man was ‘thankful to have been able to motor scoot out without major injures’
- He revealed he ‘took a chance and I said, “I hope I don’t get struck by lightning”
This is the shocking moment lightning strikes in South Carolina, jolting a man so much he drops his umbrella.
Romulus McNeill is seen on video walking through a rainstorm around the Academy for Technology and Academics near Conway and shelters himself from the rain.
Seconds into the film, McNeill is seen swinging keys in his right hand as he heads to his car, and the bolt of electricity causes him to drop the canopy.
Romulus McNeill is seen walking through a rainstorm around the Academy for Technology and Academics near Conway, South Carolina on Friday afternoon when lightning strikes
School guidance counselor ‘took a chance and I said, “I hope I don’t get struck by lightning”
In the recording of a clip from a surveillance footage screen, McNeill is seen reacting in shock as the lightning physically removes the object from his hand.
While he nonchalantly picks the umbrella back up after being shaken and dashes to the parking lot, it seems the man was indeed frightened by the incident.
‘It jolted me honey. I just knew I was done,’ he replied to someone asking how it felt in a comment on his clip shared Friday on Facebook.
In the video he holds his keys in his right hand and umbrella in his left walking to the parking lot
McNeill is a guidance counselor at Horry County Schools. In the caption for his social media post he tells followers he came out unharmed.
‘Cameras caught my crazy experience with lightning,’ he wrote. ‘Supa thankful to have been able to motor scoot out of there without major injures.’
Social media users joked that he is so lucky he should play the lottery. One compared him to Raidon in Mortal Combat.
Suddenly he is jolted as a bolt hits the sidewalk and he drops the canopy. He picks up the object and dashes to the parking lot to head home to eat
A commenter joked: ‘You might have super powers now.’
McNeill replied: ‘That’s what they say bro..bout to look up the numbers for lightning in the lottery book.’
The married man had even thought about the possibility of being hit in the storm before he stepped out.
He told WMBF News: ‘I took a chance and I said, “I hope I don’t get struck by lightning.”
‘I felt a shock. It was just kind of insane for it to happen like that. I was just trying to get home and get something to eat.’
McNeill was ‘thankful to have been able to motor scoot out without major injures’ he told Facebook followers and added to a commenter: ‘It jolted me honey. I just knew I was done’