Been struck by lightning?

When I was a child, we were driving through Orego around Burns. There was heavy rain and lightning and it was night. Suddenly, there was a light so bright that we were blinded and thunder so loud that we were deafened. Everything instantly was dark and silent and we realized that we were rolling along in the darkness with no lights and no running motor. My mom stopped the truck and we surmised that we had been struck by lightning. We stayed in the vehicle for hours in the dark until the storm passed. It was very scary.

When the storm passed, we got out and examined the truck. The hood and roof had burned and peeling paint. We had an aluminum canopy that had several holes you could put your fist through and hundreds of tiny holes. It had been melted. My mom replaced several of the fuses and we were able to get the truck to start and we had lights. We drove slowly to Bend and all we had to do was replace several fuses and the truck was mechanically back to normal. The truck got reprinted and the canopy was replaced.

I don't know if the lightning hit the truck or the most cloud created when you drive on rainy roads, but I remember the experience of going from driving with the radio, lights, and engine noise to the flash and boom, and then silence vividly.