Horrifying truth behind this woman’s innocent snap of her static hair: ‘You were close to death’

A woman has been warned she was ‘close to death’ after sharing a snip of her standing hair on her morning walk.

The Jersey woman was walking her dogs on the beach when her hair shot into the air.

She posted a photo on Facebook where people were quick to let her know that she had just cheated death.

The woman explained that she felt a ‘very tingling sensation in my head/forehead’ and said her hair became ‘static’ for 15 minutes.

She said she could “hear the thunder” on the French coast, about 15 miles away.

“I started to get a little nervous and moved higher up the beach,” she admitted.

‘God knows what it would have looked like if I hadn’t tied my hair back! It was a very strange sensation,” she added.

But the light-hearted conversation quickly turned dark.

“You were at risk of getting hit, believe it or not, you were a lightning rod that stood on the beach and towered over the surrounding landscape. The beach is not an ideal place where there is an electrically charged atmosphere,” one man wrote on the post.

‘An electric charge builds up as part of a ‘positive lightning strike’. It’s the load that makes your hair stand on end. You may not think you’re in trouble if the storm still seems to be raging in the distance. But that electrical charge is a clear sign that you should get in as soon as possible,” one woman added.

Her comments are supported by the experts at the US National Weather Service.

“When your hair stands on end, lightning is about to strike you. Get on your knees and bend forward, but don’t lie flat on the floor. Wet soil is a good conductor of electricity,” says the National Weather Service team.

Another woman shared a similar photo and said she was also unaware of the danger she was in

‘It is also advisable to stay far away from the beach if a storm is coming.

“You’re lucky you can still walk and talk, as in cases where people’s hairs stand on end from static electricity, you would normally have been struck by lightning while electricity flows up through the earth to create a discharge of to meet the storm,” one person added.

Another woman added a photo of her own hair standing on end and said she had no idea this meant she could be beaten.

“This happened to me a few years ago… crikey, I had no idea I was getting so close to fried,” she wrote.

The U.S. National Weather Service recommends entering a home, large building, or all-metal vehicle if lightning is near.