PEMBROKE PINES, Fla. — A Pembroke Pines homeowner is still putting the pieces together after lightning struck his house Wednesday afternoon — a moment caught on surveillance video.
Robert Goggin says the strike hit a flagpole in his yard, sending an intense electric current across the property. The surge stripped bark from a tree and left behind charred debris.
“It’s the flagpole, it’s hit the yard, and it it’s hit the mahogany tree, like simultaneously,” said Goggin. “It’s singed and blew fixtures apart and shot them out clean out of the yard and blew the stuff all the way across the yard.”…