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Couple describe lucky escape after lightning destroyed Outer Hebrides home

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A couple who got out with their lives after lightning struck their home in the Outer Hebrides have described their lucky escape.

The house at Ardroil in Uig on the west coast of the Isle of Lewis was destroyed by the bolt and resulting fire. The Western Isles were blasted by more than 230 lightning strikes during the night.

Dr Louise Scott, 53, a GP in Stornoway, and her husband Simon, who is the factor and company secretary at Grimersta Estate, were asleep when at around 2am today a direct lightning strike set the house alight with a fireball."There was a huge explosion and lightning hit the chimney stack above the bedroom," said Mr Scott, 60. "We are both ex- Army but this was pretty alarming. "Half of the stack came down into the bedroom and the other half fell outside.

If the debris that came inside had fallen two feet nearer it would have been on top of us."The bolt came through the roof and the floor."The fire started immediately.

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