On Aug. 10, in Lutz, Florida, about 20 minutes north of Tampa, the sun was shining but somehow what's known as a 'Bolt from the blue" struck. Typical summertime thunderstorms had been making their way through the Tampa-Saint Petersburg area, but around 4 p.m., the closest storm in the vicinity to Lutz was about 3 miles away.
Jonathan Moore had just parked his truck with a dashcam across the street as a very large and booming bolt of lightning dropped out of the blue sky and struck a neighbor's palm tree across the street with such force that Moore's dashcam beeped, which it usually does to alert the driver of any type of movement.