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DEI37 · 06-14-2008, 06:45 PM

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080614/...x3ZKrnmPcuQE4F

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BLANCHARD, Mich. - No one quite understands the term "striking it lucky" better than 16-year-old BreAnna Helsel. The Michigan teen survived being struck by lightning and went on to win $20 in the lottery the next day.
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Helsel was at her home in Blanchard, about 50 miles northeast of Grand Rapids, watching thunderstorms roll by on June 6 when she noticed rain entering an open kitchen window.

"She went to close the window and the lightning came through and hit her," her mother, Linda Johnson, told The Daily News of Greenville. "We think it must have hit the house or something."

Helsel struggled to describe the sensation she felt as the electricity passed through her body.

"It felt like when your foot falls asleep," she said.

Helsel said she saw the electricity shoot out of her fingers and into the overhead lights, immediately knocking out the house's power.

At first, the teenager didn't want to be checked out at a hospital, but when she started complaining about a tingling sensation in her arm, she and her mother drove through the rain to get to Spectrum Health Kelsey Hospital in Lakeview.

Helsel was checked out and the only signs of the lightning strike were some darkened fingertips on her right hand and a shaking arm from damaged muscles that will require some therapy. A full recovery is expected.

"Everyone said I'm really lucky," she said.

Hospital employees suggested that Helsel was on such a lucky streak, she should immediately play the lottery. She's too young, so her mother went out the next day and bought a Michigan lottery ticket for her.

"And we won $20," Johnson said, laughing. "What a way to start the summer."

MexicanOnABike · 06-14-2008, 08:42 PM

20$?! wow. if there was a few 0000 to that, it would be impressive. this on the other hand is bleh.

lotsofmagnets · 06-15-2008, 06:24 AM

it´ll get her an icecream. sheesh, expectations....

DEI37 · 06-15-2008, 10:19 AM

Oh, I know full well, another few zero's would be cooler yet, but beggars can't be choosers...right?

Brewmaniac · 06-15-2008, 06:00 PM

She could be dead! The 20 bucks is just a small bonus! Did friday the 13th have anything to do with it?

06-14-2008, 08:42 PM	#2 (permalink)
MexicanOnABike Location: up north	20$?! wow. if there was a few 0000 to that, it would be impressive. this on the other hand is bleh. __________________ - Movie Reviews - Ratings-

06-15-2008, 06:24 AM	#3 (permalink)
lotsofmagnets Upright Location: reykjavík, iceland	it´ll get her an icecream. sheesh, expectations.... __________________ mother nature made the aeroplane, and the submarine sandwich, with the steady hands and dead eye of a remarkable sculptor. she shed her mountain turning training wheels, for the convenience of the moving sidewalk, that delivers the magnetic monkey children through the mouth of impossible calendar clock, into the devil's manhole cauldron. physics of a bicycle, isn't it remarkable?

06-15-2008, 10:19 AM	#4 (permalink)
DEI37 Go faster! Location: Wisconsin	Oh, I know full well, another few zero's would be cooler yet, but beggars can't be choosers...right? __________________ Generally speaking, if you were to get what you really deserve, you might be unpleasantly surprised.

06-15-2008, 06:00 PM	#5 (permalink)
Brewmaniac Searching for the perfect brew!	She could be dead! The 20 bucks is just a small bonus! Did friday the 13th have anything to do with it? __________________ "That's a joke... I say, that's a joke, son" Last edited by Brewmaniac; 06-15-2008 at 06:06 PM..