‘All of a sudden there was this lighting flash that hit,’ said JP Nadeau, who was able to continue his speech and said he was not injured in the incident 
 
 JP Nadeau was determined not to let anything get in the way of his daughter’s wedding – not even a lightning bolt that surged through his hand partway through his toast to the newlyweds. 
 
 The Canadian couple had just been married an hour earlier at an outdoor ceremony in his family’s apple orchard in Woodstock, New Brunswick, on Saturday. A few clouds had started to roll in on the hot, sunny day as the father of the bride took the microphone to make his speech. 
 
 “I said: ‘Adam, you are some lucky guy,’” Nadeau told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. “As soon as I said that, my daughter’s eyes – she was looking at me – just popped right out. Because all of a sudden there was this lightning flash that hit right behind me.” 
 
 Nadeau looked down just in time to see his right hand light up. “It was like I was holding a lightning bolt in my hand, it was amazing,” he said. “I’m sure I jumped, because I felt a major shock. But after that I was kind of okay and I even continued speaking.” 
 
 Facebook Twitter Pinterest The father of the bride, JP Nadeau, the moment lightning struck at his daughter’s wedding. Photograph: Sabrina Guitford Monteith 
 
 His speech was again interrupted – this time by the people in the sound booth who were frantically yelling at him to bring back the microphone he was holding. 
 
 He calmly walked over to the sound booth to hand them the microphone as the wedding guests looked on, stunned. “They thought I was going to drop dead.” 
 
 An avid piano player, Nadeau checked his hands for any signs of damage. When nothing turned up, the wedding continued. 
 
 Along with the lightning had come sheets of rain, forcing guests to huddle under a large tent that had been set up. “We just stayed there and partied in there until it stopped raining,” he said. “It was really good. It was really a fun thing.” 
 
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 Days later, he had yet to visit a doctor. But he brushed off any concerns about his health. “I’m okay, there’s really nothing at all.” 
 
 The lightning strike had felt like sudden shock that ran through him, he said, leaving just a scorch mark on his thumb where the electricity had likely entered his body. 
 
 “A lot of lesser men would have perished. But I don’t know how it happened that I could just walk, scot-free,” he said. Laughing, he added that the jolt might have even helped his health. “I was saying to someone I think my knee is working: better.” ||||| story transcript 
 
 J.P. Nadeau was expecting his daughter's wedding to be an electrifying day — but it's safe to say it far exceeded his expectations. 
 
 As he was delivering his speech Saturday during the outdoor ceremony in Woodstock, N.B., his right hand was struck by lightning. 
 
 The father of the bride got quite a shock, but he was not injured. He told As It Happens guest host Laura Lynch about the moment he was struck: 
 
 J.P Nadeau: At 3 o'clock, the father of the groom, he got up and said something, and then it was my turn. I got the mic from him, and I said, "Adam, you are some lucky guy." 
 
 As soon as I said that, my daughter's eyes, she was looking at me, and she just, like, popped right out, because all of a sudden there was this lightning flash that hit right behind me. 
 
 The power went into the soundbooth and came back through the mic cord, and I was looking at my hand, and it lit up. My whole hand — it was like I had a bolt of lightning in my hand. 
 
 I must have jumped, I'm sure I jumped, because I felt a major shock, but after that I was kind of OK. 
 
 J.P. Nadeau was expecting his daughter's wedding to be an electrifying day — but the event far exceeded his expectations. (Sabrina Monteith/Sabrina's Professional Photography) 
 
 Laura Lynch: How did other people react? 
 
 JPN: They all were stunned as well as anyone. Because I didn't see it, they saw it. That's the great thing about getting hit by lightning ... if you got witnesses. Because a lot of times you've got nothing to say about it, right? 
 
 LL: What does it feel like to get hit by lightning? 
 
 JPN: It was a sudden shock, I gotta tell you. It just ran right through me. It was crazy. 
 
 LL: Has there been any damage? 
 
 JPN:No, no, not at all. I think my knee's working better (laughs) 
 
 I didn't feel anything, and everyone is amazed I'm alive. 
 
 LL: Do you take it as any sign from above that the lightning struck just as soon as you told your new son-in-law that he was a lucky guy? 
 
 JPN: Well, I'm usually quite spiritual about things like that. I think it's got to be all right and anyway. There's a rumour that goes around that if it rains or thunders on your wedding day, it's a good sign. 
 
 LL: Yeah, but the father of the bride getting struck usually isn't part of the equation. 
 
 JPN: Well, I guess that's sort of the exclamation mark at the end of the blessing. (laughs) 
 
 This interview has been edited for length and clarity. For more on this story, listen to our full interview with J.P. Nadeau.
– Lightning strikes people often enough, but usually not when they're opening the fridge for a snack. Such is the plight of Texas high school student Macie Martinez, who was home with her parents on Memorial Day when a storm blew in. She was opening the fridge to grab some applesauce when the bolt struck. "It was so surreal," her mom tells the Houston Chronicle. "There was a loud explosion, everything went dark and at the same time, Macie started screaming, but it wasn't from her throat. It was a deep scream." The teen tells MyFox Austin that she remembers not being able to feel her legs, and her parents hustled her to the hospital. She suffered nerve damage in her arms and hands, and doctors are keeping an eye on her kidney and liver, but she seems to have escaped major harm. "I feel very lucky," she tells the TV station. "Lucky to be sitting here doing this interview today." She's even making light of herself on Instagram, telling people to call her Sparky. It turns out that Martinez's father also got zapped, though his telltale rash didn't show up until after the family had returned from the hospital. "My right arm gets tingly," he says. The family home sustained significant damage from the strike, which a neighbor says appeared to have come from beneath the house and exited through the roof. Appliances were fried, with the coffee maker one of the few survivors. That's fine with mom: "I get my daughter and coffee maker, so I'm set." (This guy survived a lightning strike to the head.)