July 3, 2009 Man survives lightning strike in Mass. Play video

(NECN: Jennifer Eagan, Upton, Mass.) - Two people in Massachusetts are recovering after they were struck by lightning during today's storms. The strikes happened in Sandwich and Upton. Both men are expected to be OK.

NECN's Jennifer Eagan reports from Upton where the lightning strike kept emergency workers busy.

“I'm breathing a little bit heavy and I'm shaky.”

Scott Gray told an Upton dispatcher he seemed to be doing OK Thursday morning; just moments after a nearby lightning strike threw him to the ground.

“I got up and didn't know what to do. I walked inside the house and fell to the ground.”

Gray's girlfriend dialed 911.

She tells us the bolt hit a lamppost at the end of the driveway at their Merriam Way home.

It traveled toward the house, right under the 44-year-old's feet as he made his way to his car.

The jolt threw gray back into a puddle as electricity coursed through his body.

Neighbors heard the strike.

Upton EMS responded to the call, which came in right as a line of heavy thunderstorms swept through Central Massachusetts.

EMS director Brian Kemp says Gray was taken to Milford Regional Medical Center to be checked out.

It comes just a day after an Eastham man was struck and killed by lightning while shell fishing off Cape cod.

Gray's going to be OK.

His girlfriend says he was released from the hospital this afternoon.