Saratoga, New York Lightning Strike Shows Why Standing Under Trees in Storms Is Bad Idea

Lightning striking a tree in Saratoga, N.Y., as captured by
a surveillance camera.  

A surveillance camera at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga Springs, New York captured lightning hitting a tree at the edge of one of their parking lots.

The video goes to show why you don't stand under trees in storms.

If you watch carefully, you'll note, too, how far and wide pieces of the tree rocket into the parking lot, especially early on in the strike.

You don't have to be that close to a lightning strike to really get hurt.

The clip is going viral, much like that one of the truck getting struck by lightning as it sped down an Alberta highway recently.

Here's the Saratoga surveillance camera drama: