LIVERMORE - A Boothby Road man was taken to a Lewiston hospital Thursday night after he was struck by lightning while getting out of the shower at his home.

Christian Hussey, 30, was struck in the arm, his mother-in-law, Pam Soper of Boothby Road said. He was in fair condition at Central Maine Medical Center, a nursing supervisor said at 10 p.m.

Fire Chief Donald Castonguay said he and other members of the department were called to the Hussey home at 94 Boothby Road about 8 p.m. to investigate a report of a man struck by lightning.

"He was taking a shower, and he stepped out of the shower and he had his hand on the faucet" when a bolt of lightning hit the house, "and he got it through the water pipes. He had an arm that he said felt heavy and tingly."

Hussey was taken by NorthStar ambulance to Franklin Memorial Hospital in Farmington and then moved to CMMC.

A meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Gray said the lightning strike in Livermore was the only one they heard of Thursday night.

A line of storms moved through parts of Androscoggin County, north of Lewiston, as well as parts of Oxford County between 7 and 8 p.m., according to the weather service.

The storms brought heavy rain, thunder and lightning, but by 9 p.m., the worst of the storms appeared to be over.