Doris Holm Recalls Weather Phenomenon

Doris Fieg Holm, daughter of Max Fieg and granddaughter of Carl and Emilie Fieg who emigrated from Germany early in the twentieth century, sent this e-mail to your editor a while back.  What an exciting memory!  Perhaps someone can answer her question.

I remember sitting in Uncle Lothar's living room on the hill in Oneonta as a kid, perhaps about 8 years old.....There was a terrible thunderstorm going on outside.  Suddenly lightning hit the house, and I saw a ball of fire run across the top of one wall and down the corner into the ground again.  I can't remember anything else that happened, except that I was one scared and shaken kid.  It was loud and so fast that it was over in a split second  No one else was in the room with me, as I recall.

So many memories....is the house really vacant?  Who owns it now? 

Doris Fieg Holm