"Lightning shocks Wakefield woman inside home" by Jeffrey Fish, Globe Correspondent | September 9, 2010
Jo Frechette of Wakefield was preparing for her first day back to school as an aide who works with special-needs kindergarteners when she received a nasty shock yesterday.
Frechette, 55, was getting ready about 7:30 a.m. as a thunderstorm rolled through Eastern Massachusetts. She heard a strange sound that she later realized was lightning striking her house. She put her right hand on her iron and was thrown back about 6 feet.
“Everything seemed to happen in such a flash second,’’ said Frechette, who was unsure whether the jolt knocked her out. She got up after she heard the phone ring and had “no feeling in my right arm and felt tingling all the way up to my face.’’
She answered the phone. It was her husband warning her that there were severe thunderstorms rolling through....
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