A Precog?

Lake Worth bridge across the Intracoastal Canal

Today as I was headed out to run errands, our neighbor, Annette, was in her driveway. She and her family had just gotten home from the beach and were unloading their car. She waved her arms and called, “I’ve got a synchro, Trish!”

So, of course, I stopped. We’ve posted a number of her and her family’s synchros over the years and they’re invariably good ones. I lowered my window, eager to hear this one.

“A beach synchro?” I asked.

“Only that we were coming back from the beach. A front was moving in. The sky was getting really dark and ominous, thunder rumbled in the distance, and it was starting to rain. We were coming across Lake Worth bridge, where there’s some construction going on, and we spot a pair of tall cranes on the bridge. Maddie (her daughter) points at the cranes. ‘Do you think lightning ever strikes those things?’

“Seconds later…and I mean seconds, that was all…there was a tremendous boom that woke Fergie (her dog) out a sound sleep in the back seat and she crawled between the seats and into my lap. The flash of light was so bright it briefly blinded us. We realized lightning had struck the crane. We were stunned, just stunned.”

“Maddie experienced a precognition!” I exclaimed. “A synchro about a future event.”

Mulling this over later, I thought of the adage, “Lightning strikes.” It’s often used when people experience sudden good luck that usually involves money, and wondered if there was another layer to this precognition.

Annette and her husband are seeking a settlement that relates to the housing meltdown of 2007, when banks were involved in mortgage derivatives that resulted in numerous foreclosures in South Florida and left many homeowners bewildered about who owned the mortgage on their home. I think this lightning precog bodes well for their settlement!