Elis Roberts, three, didn't even wake up despite his bedroom on Edwin Drive, Flint, being struck during a thunderstorm which affected large parts of Flintshire.

A power surge during the storm blew a hole in his bedroom wall.
The blast, heard throughout the neighbourhood, sent masonry, plaster and dust flying over the youngster's bedroom.

Posters and football memorabilia belonging to Liverpool fan Elis were damaged, and the family's TV, video and satellite box were all frazzled.

Dad Lestyn Roberts and partner Pat Mulreay said Elis and the whole family had been very lucky.

Pat, who also has a one-year-old baby son Deryn, told how she was just nodding off when she a noise like "a massive explosion."

She said: "It was very loud – everyone came out in the street."

"Elis didn't even wake up.

"We have been so very lucky and it could have been a lot worse."

Fire crews rushed to the scene at 12.45am on Saturday and made sure the bungalow was safe.

It turned out that a lightning bolt had hit the gable end of the house and exploded breeze blocks in the wall.

Luckily, the lightning didn't start a fire.

All of the bungalow's bulbs and electrical equipment were blown, and neighbouring houses were also affected.

Dad Lestyn, a senior team leader at a local food factory, said he was fast asleep when he was woken by a huge bang.

He said: "We both sat up. I said 'What the hell was that?' It was all dark."

Lestyn went downstairs for a torch and felt something underfoot which he initially feared might be glass.

It was then he found the hole in the wall between the upper stairs and Elis' bedroom.

"The main thing is that everyone was okay," he said.

"The firemen were brilliant. They checked everything before leaving and even fitted a couple of modern smoke alarms because they said ours, which had been here since before we bought the house, were old."

A spokesman for North Wales Fire and Rescue Service confirmed that fire crews had attended a report of a lightning strike.

There was no fire but they ensured that everything in the property was safe.