sister and nephew where in a 2001 marquis when it got struk by litning running 60mph on 1-65,, the car went dead , struck the battery or rite on the hood above it ? blowed up the battery ,blinded my nephew momentarily but he got on the shoulder safely.. my sister got a strong jolt in her seat,. she refused going to hospital ,, but she mite have been in shock ,. the car was never able to be a dependable car , after numerous repairs that failed the insurance arbitrated a settlement ,.//I HATE FIRES / was baling corn stalks with my n Holland 850 roundbaler when it caught fire , ,the bale was one half when I noticed I was trailing fire,.i kept baling even though one side of bale was clearly on fire , as long as I kept smothering the flame with new stalks I could contain the fire ,when bale was big enuf to safely dump ,I ejected the bale and safely pulled away , as the bale went up like it was made of gasoline , saved my baler and tractor , on a very dry day , .my neighbor lost his 6600 deere to fire , my brother lost his 510 massey combine about a week apart as I recall... when a combine goes, and the hydraulic oil catches fire " that's all she wrote .". very dry fall caused a lot of problems here .. when I was in 3rd grade coming home on school bus,,the fire truck overtook us ,, I remember some bigger kids talking how exciting it was ,, my oldest sister was on the opposite side of bus and said it looked like smoke coming from our farm , or just down from it ,,. and I started praying the prayers I had learned in school.. the bus driver wasted no time making stops, the hi school age Garvey boys and Langs told the driver , " go past our house and get to the fire, we mite be able to help" ,the GARVEYS hollered fire to their grandpa as we went by ,. we got the re to see My Dad , directing the fire dept , to try to keep the tractor tires from burning on his 35 Ferguson,. a spark arced under the gas tank as dad was mowing hay ,.dad tried to stop the fire but the gas tank fumes took off. he said the cap was on but flames were a foot high and he was trying to stop the fire with green hay,before it blew up ,.he burned his hands with some ugly blisters,..