Moment Florida boy, 17, is struck by lightning while doing yard work during storm

A teenage boy who was struck by lighting while doing gait activity during a large wind is doing 'remarkably well.' 

Daniel Sharkey was cutting his neighbor's section in Altamonte Springs, Florida astatine astir 5pm connected Monday erstwhile he was hit.

He instantly fell to nan crushed and was rolling astir successful agony erstwhile concerned residents rushed to thief him.

'I woke up, I was connected nan ground. I was trying to scream, and I was incapable to,' he told WFTV. 

Sharkey was taken to Orlando Regional Medical Center pinch aggravated thorax symptom and he has suffered scars connected his arms from nan energy that pierced done his body.

Footage of nan incident shows Sharkey moving connected nan section extracurricular earlier he was struck by lighting.    

The clip cuts to him rolling connected nan crushed successful utmost symptom pinch concerned neighbors rushing to thief him.

A female is heard screaming: 'Call 911, I'm coming!'

'I was weed-trimming and nan adjacent point you cognize I was connected nan ground,' Sharkey said. 

'I was trying to decorativeness up. I was astir to caput backmost to my truck, and suddenly, I woke up look down successful a puddle,' he told WESH. 

'There was nary warning. There was nary "get retired of nan way." It was conscionable instantaneous.' 

Neighbor Angelina Tolbert said: 'I saw him laying connected nan crushed and I yelled to my boy "Oh my God, Daniel has been deed by lightning!"' 

Doctors said nan adjacent character saved nan teenager's life arsenic it absorbed astir of nan daze and he could person died if nan bolt struck conscionable a fewer inches over. 

Tolbert described Sharkey's betterment arsenic miraculous. 'He’s decidedly sewage immoderate angels pinch him for sure,' she said.

'I’m conscionable happy that if karma is simply a thing, it ended up connected my broadside this time,' he said. 

The teen has been described arsenic personification who loves to thief and he regularly seen volunteering astatine the Second Harvest Food Bank.

But he said he is not vanished earning rate this summertime pinch his gait work.

'I mean, I’ve sewage 20 group that expect their writer cut, and if not there, I’m judge I’ll person a batch of irritated customers,' Sharkey added.