This is Lightning Awareness Week in Illinois so it's appropriate that I found this incredible video.

Watch as a lightning bolt narrowly missed a group of campers in Yellowstone National Park. It happened earlier this month during a hailstorm. And the guy who took the video says at the time he had no idea what he captured on film.

The strike lights up one frame of the film and explodes through the ground as it runs through the roots of a nearby tree. Watch here:

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