Lightning Strikes

By Richard Noble

Philip Barnard is struck my lightning on his way home from the boatyard in 1910. He wakes up with memories of a day in 2010 when a tsunami causes devastation on the island of Java. How can he use his knowledge to save the lives of millions of people?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Jul 8, 2014
• ISBN: 9781291944365

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Lightning Strikes

Lightning Strikes

By

Richard Noble

Copyright

© 2014 All rights reserved

First Edition

ISBN – 978-1-291-94436-5

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

Contents

Chapter 1 - 1910: 1910: 1910

Chapter 2 - 2010: 2010: 2010

Chapter 3 - Sunday 24th October 2010

Chapter 4 - Elizabeth’s story

Chapter 5 - Back to normal

Chapter 1:  1910:1910:1910

There may come a time when we will know how it happened. Until that day comes we can only say that it did, and record the facts for others to try and understand it in the future.

It was ten past seven in the evening of the 19th October 1910. Philip Barnard was on his way home from the harbour in Lyme Regis. He had seen the storm coming for some time and he was wondering if he would get home before it broke.

As he crossed over the bridge at the top of the Lynch a lightening bolt shot out of the black clouds and struck Philip to the ground. There were several people around who saw the event and they rushed over to see if they could help. His house was only a short distance away and so they carried his limp body home where he was laid on his bed. A doctor came round after about an hour to find Philip sleeping but seemingly unharmed by the incident. He found it hard to believe what the witnesses were saying to him, but he knew them to be honest folk with no reason to fabricate such a story. It was noon the next day when Philip awoke in his bed. They had taken off his coat but so as not to disturb him the previous night they had just covered him with blankets and left him in his clothes. Philip was 16 years old and an apprentice boat builder at Cyril Platt’s workshop down at the harbour. He was a bright and well mannered lad and keen to learn his trade.