![]() What to do after a person is struck by lightning Here’s what the aftermath can look like, regardless of where it happened. While lightning strikes occur more frequently outside, 32% of lightning strike injuries happen indoors, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to play “I had to go get EKGs every single day for 10 days,” Stone said. There, she was given an electrocardiogram (EKG), a test that records the electrical signal coming from your heart, which showed that she still had electricity surging through her body. ![]() She was taken to the ER by her mom, who witnessed everything. Stone said she was “picked up and thrown across the kitchen” and “hit the refrigerator,” knocking her unconscious. “I had one hand on the faucet, one hand on the iron, and the well got hit with lightning and the lighting came up through the water.” ![]() “I was filling the iron with water,” she explained. ![]() Stone revealed on the “ Films To Be Buried With” podcast that it happened in her home (which has its own well) while she was preparing to iron some clothes. The odds of being struck by lightning in your lifetime are 1 in 15,300, according to the National Weather Service, but it still happens to people-including actress Sharon Stone, who recently opened up about her experience with a lightning strike. ![]()
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