If I develop superpowers, it's because...

I just got my ass shocked.

Tristan and I were laying around watching TV - and a pretty strong thunderstorm came through and scared her.  We went to "hide" where it wouldn't be visible to her.  When I went downstairs, I noticed the basement door was flooding, and I grabbed some laundry and towels and threw them on the developing river. 

I was standing in water, not much, but some.

I don't know if it was the lightning, but I got zapped pretty damn hard, enough to make me scream, toss me back and run. 

(Outside of my back basement door, there is currently like eight inches of water trying to come in, and at that point, I was standing in water, with the towels trying to stop it before it got worse.)

The shock started in my right foot, and exited apparently in my right hand, I felt it, like 1000 Pop Rocks being lit on fire.

Since I was home alone with the Biscuit, I ran upstairs with her, sat her in the bathroom with me because she was *already freaking out since the storm started, and called 911.  I wanted to make sure someone was here in case the electricity sent me into a seizure, I assumed it could.  They came, and Bob and the kids got home shortly thereafter, so I didn't go to the hospital, obviously.  I'm fine, no wounds or anything, I was just more concerned that the shock would misfire my brain or something.