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internal organs, and a brander, leaving her skin permanently scarred. But Pillard's case could have easily been more damaging, he said.
"She was lucky, absolutely," he said. "She could have easily been in that other third."
Pillard's scars are still visible. She suffered both second- and third-degree burns on her body.
"But for the most part, no one can tell and I can't tell either," she said.
Pillard returned to classes after Labor Day, but not before visiting the tree that she thinks took the brunt of the strike. She's only been back there once. She said she doesn't avoid the tree, but she doesn't feel the need to visit the site.
Pillard said she still hadn't decided if that tree saved her life or caused the accident.
"I told my mom that I'm having a hard enough time deciding if I love that tree or hate that
tree,"she said.
That tree might have attracted the lightning bolt, said Curtis Hall, instructor of physics and atmospheric sciences.
Lightning bolts occur during a thunderstorm because the earth has a positive charge and the cloud base has a negative charge, he said. Lightning occurs when the charge between the two builds up to a high amount.
batteries "In electricity, as in most other aspects of life, opposites attract," Hall said.
Strikes are more likely when the air space, which serves as insulation between the two charges, is reduced by a tree or another tall object. Because of campus' elevation and the number of trees near Potter Lake, the site made Pillard an easy target, he said.
Electricity will follow the path of least resistance, he said. Pillard's skin probably made a better conductor than the inside of her body, which might have saved her internal organs. It is still unknown what was struck first. He said the lightning could
have either hit her directly or it could have hit the ground or the tree and traveled to her during the storm.
the stoma.
Pillard said she had only been out in a thunderstorm once since she got out of the hospital.
"It was fine. I was just a little leery at the same time," she said. "I remember turning my door knob and my hands were shaking. Every time I see lightning I flinch, but I'm sure that'll get better."
Though she still has bandages and treats her wounds daily, Pilard doesn't want to be treated any differently.
anytime. "No one really pays me any extra attention, and that's how I want it," she said.
Pillard acknowledges that her safety was controlled by the atmosphere that day.
"I had absolutely no warning." she said. "I had no control over whether I lived or died. It was pretty much however it wanted to go through."
"Talk about a force of nature."
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Clark said thetruth.com was not about opinions, but about facts.
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