(un) timely reflections

Messages like these are known from the newspaper: "Lightning strikes at football field ...". How surprisingly unspectacular such a mini-disaster expires, I know from personal experience since yesterday evening. It was about eight clock, and I already kicked for an hour with my colleagues on our AH-team training pitch. First, it started to drizzle a bit, and gradually developed into a rather uncomfortable sleet.

From the corner of my eye I suddenly saw the floodlights from the direction of a bright spark and lightning. The whole went very quickly and looked like a great circuit, as he could imagine in a Jurassic Park theme parks. With a not too loud Zapp moved a spark and flash of the mast toward the ground, we would stop immediately and all thought of a blowing, falling lights. Only a few seconds then followed that supposedly typical Thunderclap, who signaled to us all that we have just witnessed a "real" bodily lightning in the immediate vicinity. Taken, without panic, but quickly we left the place towards the cabin. On the way summarized some players who were close to this mast, on the head. They told of a perceived shock and made sure that no hair was singed. Later told a few who had a better vantage point, from a huge, horizontal lightning, was apparently on the floodlights on his way into the ground. A flash without warning, has made 'cheerful' heaven, we thank God not quite reach ...