Thread: Tell me how close you've been to death

Of course, no one reading this has died, and this would make for an interesting topic, so tell me about the closest you've ever been to dying.

I've been about 10-20 yards away from death. I was in Orlando, FL, swimming with my friends. We saw some really dark clouds to our left, so we went over to this bar near the pool. The Weather Channel was on. We talked to the guy behind the counter. He said that it storms like clockwork almost every day at about 2:00. Just as he was telling us this, about 10-20 yards to the left of me, out of the corner of my eye, BOOM! This huge bolt of lighting just blasts from outta nowhere. The second it hit I dropped down below the counter out of flinching. We ran inside after this.

Scary. Post yours!

Edit: Hey, come to think of it, my dad almost got struck by lightning too. But he was like feet away from the bolt. I think he was somewhere between 4-7 years old when he came close to lightning. Huh, guess it runs in the family...