Lightning strikes with force

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Crossing a soccer field in the sunshine and light mist of a pleasant afternoon that's the last thing Eli Evans remembers before the instant that changed his life.
"I woke up the next day," Evans recalls. "I was in the hospital."
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After his encounter in 1999 in Oklahoma City, Evans received therapy to learn to walk again. Today, Evans, 38, of Oklahoma City, an archivist for the State Department of Libraries, still has burning tingling sensations in the soles of his feet.