“Not Again, Surely,” Flashed Through My Mind: Lightning Strikes Gilberte (81), 24 Years After She Lost Everything She Owned in a Fierce Fire

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“When I was peeling the second potato, I heard a huge bang. I went to take a look, even outside, but I didn't really see anything special.” Yet, a moment later, the roof of 81-year-old Gilberte Serré's house on Schoonderbeukenweg in Rillaar (Aarschot), Flemish Brabant, turned out to be ablaze. Alert neighbors and a decisive police officer were able to prevent worse, but for Gilberte and her son Johan (59), the blow is immense, because exactly th…