'Shocking' Escape: Thanks To His Umbrella, This Man Was Saved From A Deadly Bolt Of Lightning!

It is dangerous to be strolling out in a thunderstorm; a bolt of lightning might just turn out to be lethal. Even when weather experts issue warnings against venturing out, most people ignore those. Romulus McNeill is one such person.

McNeill, a guidance counsellor at the Academy for Technology and Academics in Conway, South Carolina, went out with an umbrella while the skies were cooking up a storm. No sooner did he get out, he was struck by lightning. The entire incident has been caught on camera and McNeill was lucky to have escaped the deadly lighting, thanks to the umbrella he was carrying.

Reportedly, he was going to his car, when on his way lighting came in his direction and struck him umbrella down. McNeill himself shared the ¡®shocking¡¯ video on Facebook.

He was walking through the rainstorm, to his car, when suddenly a bolt of lightning struck his umbrella. The shocking moment was caught on camera and later shared on Facebook by McNeill himself.

He posted, ¡®Cameras caught my crazy experience with lightning. Supa thankful to have been able to motor scoot out of there without major injuries.¡¯

"I took a chance and I said, 'I hope I don't get struck by lightning'. I felt a shock. It was just kind of insane for it to happen like that. I was just trying to get home and get something to eat," WMBF quotes him as saying.

The video, as expected, was shared extensively. That's one lucky escape, if you ask us!