WATERBURY, Conn. -- Waterbury authorities say lightning apparently struck a house during an early morning storm that drenched Connecticut, but no one was seriously injured.

Homeowner Bill Junga and his neighbors say they were awoken shortly after 4:30 a.m. Friday by what sounded like an explosion.

Junga said, "I really didn't feel a shaking I was just sleeping and I thought I was having a dream and I hear a bang and everyone wakes up!"

The bolt appeared to have hit the side of the house on Grassy Hill Road.

The force of the strike was so severe, an inside wall buckled causing a slab of sheet rock to be pulled out. The force even cause nails to pop out of the wall.

Junga's mother, 81-year-old Bernice Junga, and his girlfriend, Kim Marcinczyk, were taken to a hospital as a precaution and are expected to be fine.

Bill Junga says he's thinking buying a lottery ticket, because the odds of winning and the chances of getting hit by lightning are about the same.