Watch Lightning Destroy Tree Outside Wisconsin School In Seconds It's nearly storm season in Texoma so this video couldn't have come at a better time. Security video recently caught a pine tree outside Wautoma High School in Wisconsin being destroyed in seconds as it is struck by a bolt of lightning. The students were all inside getting ready to take their ACT tests. I'm sure it didn't distract them at all. As you can see, it had been raining that day when suddenly a bolt of lighting struck the tree. Fortunately for the rest of us the school's security camera was pointed directly at it. One second it's there, the next second it's gone. The sound of the strike must have been incredible. Lightning took out the power transformer on the electric line outside our house during dinner once when I was a kid and everyone in the room jumped a foot off their chair when it struck.