It was not Sarah Greig's first time coming close to a lightning strike, but this one still left an impression.
On Saturday, Aug. 2, while at her home above the hospital, Greig said she was in her living room when the storm had begun to move in, and she thought she heard a cat crying outside.
When she went outside to look, she saw a fawn was trapped in her neighbour's yard, so she went over to try and let it out of their fence because it was panicking.
There was thunder, but she said it sounded far away as she went outside.
But it started to pour down heavy rain and she was making her way to the neighbour's gate when she said her entire vision "was taken up by bright white light."
She said the ground shook underneath her.
"It was so loud and it sounded like there were shots after," said Greig.
"I was scared for sure."
Inside the house, her daughter felt the house shake.
Greig wasn't sure what had happened, and she looked around to see if she could see smoke, but there wasn't any.
So she carried on, getting the young deer out of the yard, chasing it out in the hopes it would find its mother in the pouring rain.
"I was just soaked," she said, after she returned to her home.
After the storm passed, her husband spotted the damage in their yard from where lightning had clearly struck one of the trees, even hitting a garden angel and stone step as it came to ground. She estimates the tree is about 50 feet from where she had been standing.
The garden angel was destroyed, the step was cracked and there was a clearly marked pathway the electricity took down the tree. She said they saw bark which had been thrown at least 30 feet from the tree.
Interestingly, this wasn't the first time Greig had experienced the power of lightning.
When she was 15 years old, she was in South Sudan with her father, who was helping set up a nursing station. A storm moved through the village they were in and less than 100 metres away, a hut was hit by lightning and three people inside were killed.
So it isn't surprising Greig felt a bit nervous when more lightning was moving through the area on Monday.
But overall, she feels pretty lucky, given she just needs to throw away a garden angel and patch a step.
"It felt like I should go buy a lottery ticket. Either that or hide under my bed," she said, unsure of whether it was good luck to have it miss or bad luck to have had it come so close.
She was also happy to spot the fawn the next day with her mother, and felt it had all ended well.
"We have a cracked stone we've got to mend and an angel I just have to throw out, we don't know if the tree will survive, time will tell," she said.
