Staten Island man survives lightning strike, describes 'horrific' moment

On an ordinary Tuesday morning in Staten Island, Thomas Fahmy was walking to a routine dental appointment when a bolt of lightning reduced the world to a single white flash and brought him to the pavement. He survived — an outcome that defies the odds, given that lightning claims roughly one in ten of those it strikes in the United States. A neighbor's swift call to emergency services ensured that medicine could meet fortune halfway, and Fahmy was released without serious injury. Yet lightning's consequences are not always immediate, and the deeper question of his recovery belongs to the weeks