Camera captures dramatic moment lightning strikes near nursing home in Louisiana

A dramatic lightning strike that hit close to a nursing home and a church was captured from the CCTV camera of a communications tower. The video - filmed on December 15 - shows numerous strikes hitting the area in slow-motion in Louisiana, USA. The area has been victim to a wave of bad weather recently with warnings of a tornadic thunderstorm. St John the Baptist Parish Sheriff's Office: "Our communications tower captured this lightning strike, behind the SJSO, at the lot next to Twin Oaks Nursing Home, across from St. Joan of Arc Church, in LaPlace. "We also uplift prayers for our neighbors in St. Charles Parish."