Roof holed after Shrewsbury home struck by lightning
A Shrewsbury home was struck by lightning during a violent thunderstorm – leaving a hole in the roof and blowing out all the electrics. A Shrewsbury home was struck by lightning during a violent thunderstorm – leaving a hole in the roof and blowing out all the electrics. Samantha Noble said it felt like a "bomb going off" as lightning hit her home in Greenfield Gardens. The damage was done in the early hours of yesterday morning while she was in bed. The 23-year-old, who lives at the house with her daughter Elise Evans, five, and mother Lynda Noble, said she was alone at the time and left terrified by the freak of nature. [24link]

A Shrewsbury home was struck by lightning during a violent thunderstorm – leaving a hole in the roof and blowing out all the electrics.
Samantha Noble said it felt like a "bomb going off" as lightning hit her home in Greenfield Gardens.
The damage was done in the early hours of yesterday morning while she was in bed.
The 23-year-old, who lives at the house with her daughter Elise Evans, five, and mother Lynda Noble, said she was alone at the time and left terrified by the freak of nature.
She said her daughter was with her ex-partner in Welshpool, while Lynda, 50, was at the C21 nightclub in Abbey Foregate.
Samantha said: "I saw a bright light because of the lightning and it felt like a bomb had gone off. Everything wobbled and it was so loud."
The strike caused damage to the roof of the house, while electrical appliances that had been plugged in at the time were also affected.
Samantha's mother Lynda said she had been out at C21 when the incident occurred and did not realise what had happened until the next day as she went straight to bed when she got home.
"I was blissfully unaware and didn't even know there had been thunder and lightning, as I was busy chatting to my friend in C21 and the music is pretty loud in there," she said.
"It blew out the boiler, computer and the washing machine and the cooker, basically anything turned on in the kitchen area. The phone line was fused to the wall."
She added she was grateful the damage was not worse and that her granddaughter had not been at home when the lightning hit.
"God must have been on my side or somebody was," she said.
"I was lucky, thank God Elise wasn't here and the house didn't catch on fire."
Lynda said she was now in the process of getting everything sorted out with her insurance company, as well as attempting to get the roof and phone line fixed.
She said she had been told by BT that she would have to wait a week.