5/15/2009:
Home Grown: German-Russian Farm Kids Remember
"Struck by Lightening"
Raymond Boechler
Interviewed: Saskatoon, SK, 21 July 2006
Born: Karlsruhe, ND, 01 November 1925
No, Dad never talked too much about the freezing, but one thing I found interesting, he was coming he was seeding one time and I think they had four or six horses on the drill and a storm was coming, a thunderstorm or rain storm, so he could get home when he can. It was muddy and you wouldn’t be seeding anyway. He tried to get back home before the thunder storm hit. He drives into the yard with his drill and his horses and he got hit by lightning. He says, I thought something hit me in the back of the head with a soft, he says it felt like a boxing mitt and it was padded and that’s what it felt like, but it knocked him out and he fell off the drill, between the drill and horses. If the horses had moved at all, he would have been sliced up by that damn drill, but they just stood still. A couple of minutes he came to and he was alright but it had knocked him out for a bit. I thought that was quite a unique thing, that he survived it to begin with and that the horses didn’t panic and run like a horse, or animal normally would, a bolt of lightning that close, eh.