The crazy thing is the this isn't the first time the family has had to deal with lightning. Two months ago, lightning struck one of their trees. On Thursday, lightning struck another tree and then jumped to the house.
"I hear a massive pop," fire victim Taylor Baumann said.
School work for 17-year-old Taylor Baumann and his two younger brothers was abruptly interrupted first by that pop and then by fire.
"Fifteen seconds later, we just could smell smoke. We didn't have smoke in the house but we could smell it and we looked out the window and all the sudden, it was just billowing smoke outside," he said.
The boys, who are homeschooled, and their mother quickly got out as flames engulfed the attic, right above Taylor's room. Lightning had struck.
"It was very hot. We had to put alot of water on it," Taylor's father, Frank Baumann, said.
The room and half of the house is now a soggy mess, as Frank Baumann showed us. The waterlogged ceilings have started to cave in on the wood floors he laid himself.
Renovating the home has been a constant project ever since the family moved in three years ago.
"We've put alot of work into the house and then when someothing like this happens, it's kind of deflating but I could my blessings that my family was OK. Everybody got out of the house, dogs got out of the house, and eveyrbody's fine," Frank Baumann said.
The family has strong faith and a strong support system from their church. Many of them were out Thursday night to help the Baumanns out.
The family plans on staying with friends and hotels until they can get back into the house, which likely won't be for another six months.
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