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Woman Hit By Lightning Left With "Metallic Taste" in Mouth
NBC Bay Area ^ | Wednesday, Apr 2, 2014 | Terry McSweeney

Posted on 04/02/2014 3:17:39 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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1 posted on 04/02/2014 3:17:39 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Electrolysis of amalgam? Tasty mercury salts.


2 posted on 04/02/2014 3:21:57 PM PDT by Steely Tom (How do you feel about robbing Peter's robot?)
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It does happen. I was crewing in a sailboat race during a thunder storm, and holding on to the jib sheet in case we got hit by a blast of wind and needed to let it out quickly.

Lightning struck the water about 20 yards away, and I felt a surge of electricity come up my arm through the wet sheet.

I let go of it.

It was certainly a shocking experience. Obviously I only got a little bit of the lightning bolt. I presume something similar happened to this lady, or she wouldn’t still be with us.


3 posted on 04/02/2014 3:22:33 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: nickcarraway

Iron Man seen fleeing the scene.


4 posted on 04/02/2014 3:23:12 PM PDT by Rinnwald
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*snort*


5 posted on 04/02/2014 3:24:24 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: nickcarraway
"Car Salesman Loses Jimmy Fallon Contest, Becomes "National Sex Symbol" According to the National Weather Service"

Um... ;-)

6 posted on 04/02/2014 3:24:51 PM PDT by Hatteras
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” I felt a surge of electricity come up my arm —————”


When that happened to me I was having a stroke.

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7 posted on 04/02/2014 3:26:49 PM PDT by Mears
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"Whuuut?..."

8 posted on 04/02/2014 3:29:38 PM PDT by Hatteras
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To: Mears

Or, in the case of Chrissy Mathews, it was a tingle up his leg.


9 posted on 04/02/2014 3:30:20 PM PDT by SgtHooper (If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.)
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“it was a tingle up his leg”


:-)

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10 posted on 04/02/2014 3:31:40 PM PDT by Mears
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Metallic taste in mouth, brown stains in pants. She's lucky to be alive.

/johnny

11 posted on 04/02/2014 3:33:36 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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dang sure wasn’t a tingle in his brain.


12 posted on 04/02/2014 3:34:19 PM PDT by kingattax (America needs more real Americans.)
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I had lightning strike close enough to feel it in my mouth, as well as a metallic taste.

I sure don’t treat it lightly.


13 posted on 04/02/2014 3:36:57 PM PDT by rlmorel ("A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral." A. Hamilton)
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Shocking!!!

hehehe

14 posted on 04/02/2014 3:37:45 PM PDT by Osage Orange (I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
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A direct hit would have blown her right out of her shoes and possibly other articles of clothing. Passersby likely would have had to put out flames from clothing remaining, her hair, etcetera. It’s a pretty massive zot. Not too many survive.

Knew of an older guy when I was just a kid, who had been struck on his tractor trying to get it into the barn before a storm. He had multiple skin grafts. Looked like it came out at his joints, elbows in particular were a mess. He had lingering memory and balance problems in addition to physical issues.


15 posted on 04/02/2014 3:37:47 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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I’ve had it shoot through the rafters of a garage where I was working, there is a distinct odor. Everybody says ozone but the best I can describe it would be burnt garlic toast.


16 posted on 04/02/2014 3:39:03 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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I have a couple of relatives that were "hit" by lightning. One was cleaning leaves off a drain (during the storm) next to the house, and a bolt struck the next yard over. He more than felt it.

Another was an airman assigned to an army unit on a training exercise. He was on a field telephone when the line got zapped, and he stopped breathing. The unit's CO was able to revive him.

17 posted on 04/02/2014 3:45:25 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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I had a similar jolt - but I was in a basement (unfinished house) that was taking on water. The well-pump thingy got struck and it traveled across the water covered yard and zapped the crap out of me. I felt tingly for some time afterwards.

I met a guy who had been directly hit by lighting twice! He said that some electrical things don’t work properly around him anymore.


18 posted on 04/02/2014 3:45:36 PM PDT by Ladysforest
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To: Hatteras

I thought it was the Powerball winner that was the recipient of the metallic taste...


19 posted on 04/02/2014 3:48:10 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Steely Tom
Electrolysis of amalgam? Tasty mercury salts.

My thoughts, or the silver in the amalgam. I only got bit by one leg of a 220 box years ago and the next thing I knew I was sitting in the middle of the shop floor...and yep, I could taste metal for a few days.

20 posted on 04/02/2014 3:51:27 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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