Man struck by lightning while working on school roof in NW Harris County

  HOUSTON (KTRK) -- A man was hospitalized Sunday morning after being struck by lightning while working on a roof in northwest Harris County.

It happened at Primrose School of Barker-Cypress in the 16500 block of Dundee Road.

According to the Harris County Sheriff's Office, the construction crew was trying to come down from the roof when the weather quickly worsened. The 30-year-old victim was on his way down when a bolt of lightning struck him and knocked him unconscious.

The foreman performed CPR until deputies arrived and took over. An ambulance then arrived and took over for the deputies, taking him to North Cypress Medical Center in critical but stable condition.

Deputies said he was breathing on his own and was later transported to Memorial Hermann Hospital for continued treatment.

Officials tell us it is difficult to tell how a lightning strike has affected a person's body until around 24 hours after the incident.

We will continue following this story and will update you on Eyewitness News and abc13.com when new information is available.

A few minutes after the incident on the roof, another bolt of lightning struck a home on Ellendale Court, also in northwest Harris County.

The lightning stripped the bark from a pine tree.

Homeowners say an electrical surge went through the house, knocking out the power. Sparks started flying out of the oven and the house filled up with smoke, they said, but no one was hurt.

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Lightning blamed for Mongtomery County house fire

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- In the height of the storms that rolled through Thursday evening, one family's home was burning. It was all sparked by a lightning strike at Revelwood near Tamina in Montgomery County.

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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