I think I know what happened. Once I was on an airplane and experienced the same sort of phenomena. It is called St. Elmo’s Fire and sailors of long ago experienced this out on the open sea when there was high energy static electrical storm stuff going on…the loud noise and bright ball of fire light caused sailors to fall on their knees and pray to St. Elmo to protect them. In my case on the airplane, lightning struck thereby causing a highly electrically charged environment perfect to create this phenomenon. In Sally’s case it was probably due to the overhead power lines in concert with her magnetic personality and Car Talk on the radio. (Well, I made that part up, but it made SUCH a good story!) Look up St. Elmo’s fire. It’s for real. Not kidding.
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