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EYEWITNESS REPORT: Lightning causes havoc in Olive Hill, Bloemfontein

───   14:25 Sun, 06 Nov 2016

EYEWITNESS REPORT: Lightning causes havoc in Olive Hill, Bloemfontein | News Article
The window behind which Dr O'Kennedy was studying/Jeremy O'Kennedy

Bloemfontein - A Megabolt of lightning struck three massive, fully grown Blue-gum trees last night in Olive Hill, Bloemfontein.


Dr Jeremy O'Kennedy: "Something like this you will never see in your life again:  A Megabolt of lightning struck 3 massive, fully grown Bluegum trees last night, 100m from our house.  

The three massive trees exploded immediately into thousands of pieces of large wooden missiles. 

First going through two steel re-enforced concrete walls, exploding the walls and adding to the wooden missiles, large blocks of steel and concrete flew through the air. Some of these missiles have today been found more than 1km away from the explosion site.  

Hundreds shot right through our concrete fence, home walls and windows, through the roof, shattering trusses and exploding out through roof tiles from the inside. Logs and pieces of steel re-enforced concrete went through both steel garage doors and wall and back out through the second outer wall.  Logs and concrete pieces, some measuring just under a meter and weighing at least 5-6kg, travelled more than 200m through multiple concrete walls, house walls through Sporting dove coupes [killing those in their path] and denting a 1cm thick steel barn door 200m away.  

Now the Crux:  Both the steel garage door and wall, cm's away from where our cars are parked in the garage, were penetrated and destroyed by missiles that went straight through, the trajectory of the largest one literally 2cm next to my LandCruiser and another massive one through a steel re-enforced wall, exploding the steel plating out of the wall, less than 5cm from my wife's car.  

The entire inside of the garage is destroyed with tins of paint etc standing in front of our cars penetrated by shrapnel... but not a single scratch on either car?! That defies trajectory and probability physics.  

The two rooms on either side of the single room in which I was studying, sitting behind a table directly facing the window, were penetrated by multiple missiles, exploding windows, shrapnel passing through the walls like bullets and out the other side. Yet not a single piece through the windows/wall of the room facing most directly in the path of the blast source, which according to the trajectory probability and the rest of the scene should have been most affected.  Yet not even a crack in the window behind which I was sitting.  

All windows of both rooms on either side were shattered by large pieces of shrapnel passing through... We are renters, not a single hair on our bodies or single piece of our personal property has a scratch on... work out the statistical, actuarial odds and we'll re-visit the juncture of your non-belief in God scientifically, using this and my personal relationship with Him as a non-hypothetical scenario.

Dr. Jeremy D. O'Kennedy

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