Video: Woman catches electrifying experience on camera

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GUEMES ISLAND, Wash. - A woman who was hit by lightning in a July 2 storm caught the incident on camera.

Jessica Lynch was stunned but OK after lightning struck just feet away from her, and somehow traveled up to her second-story perch.

She'd been trying to film video of lightning over the ocean, and was leaning on a metal railing at an open window.

"With my left hand I had my camera extended as far out as I could reach," she said.

Just after 9 p.m., a lightning bolt struck outside her house and somehow reached her.

"And right when it hit I felt something travel through my left thumb, through my arm, through my armpit, across my back and went out my other arm and that's when you hear me scream … and you can see my camera shaking really bad at the end," she said.

The jolt knocked her backward onto the floor.

"I just kinda landed on my butt a few feet back, and my hand just kept shaking in my lap," she said.

Lynch says the strike addled her brain for a few minutes, but she's doing fine now.

"I was just so close to the strike, even though it was a few hundred feet away, that it got me as well," she said.

Lynch has spent the last 10 years of her life turning her art into designer T-shirts.

The newest one she's working on features a lightning bolt.