The Brief A lightning strike hit just across the street as a Kissimmee mother unloaded her children from the car. The mother said the close call gave her "a new respect" for thunderstorms and lightning. A Kissimmee woman said she and her children narrowly escaped injury after a lightning strike hit a neighbor's yard while she was unloading her vehicle during a storm. The lightning strike ignited a brief fire in the neighbor's yard and cracked a gutter, but the flames quickly went out, and the home was not seriously damaged. "I have a new respect for thunderstorms, lightning," she said.