VIDEO: The night was dark and the storm was coming.
Gustavo and Veronica Perez had just put their two young children to bed and were starting to unwind, watching TV, when suddenly --
“Out of nowhere,” Gustavo recalls, “the whole house lit up.”
The brilliant flash of light was accompanied by a simultaneous crack of thunder. Within minutes, Veronica’s phone was ringing and a neighbor was pounding at their door.
A lightning bolt just hit their house, and a fire was burning in their attic.
“I remember saying, ‘My babies!’” Veronica said. “(I) checked their monitor to make sure they were OK.”
The kids were not hurt, despite that fact that the lighting struck just feet away from their youngest’s bedroom. As a matter of fact, the 3-year-old boy didn’t even wake up.
Veronica and Gustavo pulled the kids from their beds, ran them out of the house and into the waiting arms of their neighbors.