wombat2u2004
01-28-2010, 05:32 PM
Man struck by lightning while washing up
A man has been struck by lightning in Sydney's outer west and two people have been hospitalised as thunderstorms sweep across NSW.
The Ambulance Service of NSW said a 37-year-old man was hit by lightning while doing the washing up near a window at a YMCA camp in Yarramundi at about 7.30pm (AEDT) on Thursday.
Paramedics were treating the man, who was suffering neck and shoulder pain, and planned to take him to hospital.
Emergency services were also called to a house on Macquarie Road, in Springwood, in the NSW Blue Mountains, after it was struck by lightning at about 5pm.
"It's come through the window, it hit the curtains and ignited them," a firefighter at the scene told media at the scene.
Two people, including a man suffering smoke inhalation, were taken to Blue Mountains Hospital.
A house on East View Avenue in nearby Leura also caught fire after it was hit by lightning, but no one was injured.
The Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) issued a severe thunderstorm warning at 7.30pm, predicting large hailstones, heavy rainfall, flash flooding and damaging winds.
Areas which may be affected late on Thursday include Grafton, Taree, Armidale, Tamworth, Narrabri and Walgett.
The NSW State Emergency Service (SES) said people in those areas should move their cars under cover and away from trees, secure loose items and stay indoors away from windows, and keep children and pets indoors.
The BoM said thunderstorms had moved through Sydney, Illawarra, Central West Slopes and Lower Western Districts by early Thursday night and the warning was no longer in force for those areas.
An SES spokesman said there had been 33 requests for assistance across the state, including 12 in the Blue Mountains.
"(The storm) looked pretty spectacular on the radar ... but as luck had it, it pretty well passed over mostly unpopulated areas," the spokesman told AAP.
"There hasn't been a lot of hail or anything in them, but there's been some pretty heavy rain."
P.S. We had the same storm here last night. Bear went missing and only emerged from under my bed after the thunder had stopped....LOLOL.
Wom
A man has been struck by lightning in Sydney's outer west and two people have been hospitalised as thunderstorms sweep across NSW.
The Ambulance Service of NSW said a 37-year-old man was hit by lightning while doing the washing up near a window at a YMCA camp in Yarramundi at about 7.30pm (AEDT) on Thursday.
Paramedics were treating the man, who was suffering neck and shoulder pain, and planned to take him to hospital.
Emergency services were also called to a house on Macquarie Road, in Springwood, in the NSW Blue Mountains, after it was struck by lightning at about 5pm.
"It's come through the window, it hit the curtains and ignited them," a firefighter at the scene told media at the scene.
Two people, including a man suffering smoke inhalation, were taken to Blue Mountains Hospital.
A house on East View Avenue in nearby Leura also caught fire after it was hit by lightning, but no one was injured.
The Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) issued a severe thunderstorm warning at 7.30pm, predicting large hailstones, heavy rainfall, flash flooding and damaging winds.
Areas which may be affected late on Thursday include Grafton, Taree, Armidale, Tamworth, Narrabri and Walgett.
The NSW State Emergency Service (SES) said people in those areas should move their cars under cover and away from trees, secure loose items and stay indoors away from windows, and keep children and pets indoors.
The BoM said thunderstorms had moved through Sydney, Illawarra, Central West Slopes and Lower Western Districts by early Thursday night and the warning was no longer in force for those areas.
An SES spokesman said there had been 33 requests for assistance across the state, including 12 in the Blue Mountains.
"(The storm) looked pretty spectacular on the radar ... but as luck had it, it pretty well passed over mostly unpopulated areas," the spokesman told AAP.
"There hasn't been a lot of hail or anything in them, but there's been some pretty heavy rain."
P.S. We had the same storm here last night. Bear went missing and only emerged from under my bed after the thunder had stopped....LOLOL.
Wom