A local man is in the hospital after getting struck by lightning inside his home. One minute, he was just talking on the phone. The next, he was burned. It happened during Wednesday night's storms in the Blairs community of Pittsylvania County.

The man was a little disoriented after the strike. He wasn't exactly sure what had happened, or where. The biggest question though, is how this bolt ended up in his home. As severe storms moved across our area Wednesday, the Mountview Road community was especially hard hit.

Elliot Terry, Neighbor - "The lightning was really bad out this way, you know it was just more of a clap, not like the usual lightning that you hear in the distance you know."

Elliot Terry says one of those powerful bolts struck a tree across the road from his house.

Terry - "There was only one really, really loud clap."

Throwing bark feet from its base and causing it to catch fire. It's possible that same bolt traveled underground and hit a house 500 feet away, where a man was talking on the phone.

Tony Allocca, Blairs Fire and Rescue - "Wrong place, wrong time."

Rescue Chief Tony Allocca responded to the 911 call. He says the victim had burns on his head and arm, but was able to talk to responders on the way to the hospital.

Allocca - "Just had a couple of little burns on him, to me, it didn't seem life-threatening."

It's an accident Allocca says could've been prevented.

Allocca - "I would advise not talking on the phone during a storm, taking a shower, washing dishes or whatever."

But for Terry, it's also a stormy evening, that could've been a lot worse.

Terry - "Just glad that no one else was outside or anything."

No one was hurt in the Ringgold-area when those storms came through. But a lightning strike did cause this garage on Deerfield Road to burn to the ground. The homeowner says he lost two motorcycles and a 1965 Mustang that he was in the process of restoring.

It was clean-up day in the Roanoke area after the storms brought down many trees there. Crews were out cutting up the trunks. About 150 Appalachian Power customers are still without electricity in Roanoke County.