Blinding Lightning Strike Stuns Rural Community Boone County, MO — December 4, 2025 A rural Missouri neighborhood was jolted awake late Wednesday night when an enormous lightning strike—described by witnesses as “the brightest flash they’d ever seen”—hit just yards from a farmhouse driveway, all of it captured in a dramatic security-camera recording. The footage shows a calm, rain-soaked field moments before the night sky explodes into pure white. For nearly two full seconds, the landscape disap