Excerpt from
THE HANDBOOK FOR LIGHTNING STRIKE
SURVIVORS
Education is your best defense.
Brigitte McCray, survivor from Chilhowie, Virginia, said, “When I was sixteen, I thought I was invincible. A few thunder booms didn’t scare me. When I got struck, I saw God. I was too young to see God. Now at the first sign of a storm I go inside. I stay away from the phone, the plumbing, and the windows.”
A poet and artist, Brigitte also travels to schools in southwestern Virginia to educate teenagers about the dangers of lightning.