Young Sweethearts Holding Hands Survive Lightning Strike

The teens, who are celebrating their six-month anniversary this weekend, were happy to learn that their public display of mutual affection saved their lives.

The two were walking along a tree-lined street in southern California when a doctor suspects they were hit by lightning, part of severe thunderstorm that moved through the area Thursday.

A nearby driver saw the bolt strike the teens and stopped to make sure they were okay, Lori said.

Reynoso said the bolt hit Dylan in the head and traveled through his body into Lexie and into the ground through her foot. After their frightening brush with death, Dylan and Lexie joke that they have a new “electric love”. “Next thing you know, we are on the ground and we gave each other the most terrified looks you could possibly imagine”, Lexie added.

Dylan described the force to KCAL-TV as “kind of shove” and “getting hit over the head with metal or something.” but Reynoso reports that the pair is in good health.

Dr. Stefan Reynoso from Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center told CBS Los Angeles: “These two were lucky they that they were holding hands”.

The two thought it could have been an quake.

They felt “tingly” and “achey” for the rest of the day, and Lexie has a bruise on her foot. “The chance of getting hit by lightning is very uncommon and perhaps one in a million”.

Being shot by Cupid will probably have a longer lasting effect on the couple, because Reynoso says they are both doing fine.