The footage was posted to Facebook on Monday by the Tolvaddon Community Fire Station, which wrote: “Crews around the county are currently dealing with numerous incidents involving lightning strikes. Here’s one which crews from Tolvaddon…visited this afternoon.” The video has garnered nearly 30,000 views and dozens of comments from awestruck viewers. You can watch the full video here.

Thunderstorms in the U.K.

Thunderstorms reportedly ravaged the U.K. throughout the weekend. According to The Guardian, more than 36,000 lightning strikes were recorded across the country within a 12-hour period on Sunday, and yellow weather warnings were put in place throughout the country on Sunday, Monday and early morning Tuesday.

Speaking to the paper, a spokesperson for the Met Office, the U.K.’s national weather service, said the bad weather was due to “low pressure.”

“The main factor leading our weather in the next few days and indeed through the week is an area of low pressure that’s coming to the west of the U.K.,” the spokesperson said. “We’ve also got a cold front that’s moving eastward off of that low pressure, bringing further rain as well.”

The areas that experienced Sunday’s intense thunder and lightning included London, Northern Ireland and southwest England, where Cornwall is located, among several other parts of England and Wales, The Telegraph reported.

Lightning Strikes

The video shared by the Tolvaddon Community Fire Station captures the harsh wind and rainfall brought in by one of the storms. After a few seconds, a bright bolt of lightning strikes the roof of a home sitting at the end of a row of houses that, according to LadBible, are still partially under construction.

Sparks roll down the roof in the moments following the strike, and one of the roof’s tiles falls to the ground.

A spokesperson for the Tolvaddon fire station told Cornwall Live that no one was hurt in the incident, adding that the building only sustained “slight fire damage.”

Newsweek has reached out to the Tolvaddon Community Fire Station for more information.

Viewers React

Many Facebook commenters were shocked by the “scary” moment.

“Sheesh!! That’s scary!!” Honey Bugs Cornwall exclaimed.

“It’s a hell no from me!! This is why I hate thunder and lightning,” Vicki Wroe said.

Jane Webster added: “Bloody hell that’s terrifying.”

Other Intense Moments

A man went viral in May for sharing footage of the moment the Andover tornado reached his yard and swallowed his fence. That same month, another family went viral for capturing the moment a tornado touched the ground just feet ahead of them as they were driving down a road in Woodbury County, Iowa.

And several Los Angeles residents went viral in June for sharing videos of the night sky being lit up by “wild” lightning strikes.