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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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21 posted on 04/02/2014 3:52:42 PM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: JoeProBono

Not Guilty and CUTE!


22 posted on 04/02/2014 4:07:28 PM PDT by TaMoDee (Go Pack Go! The Pack will be back in 2014!)
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To: RegulatorCountry
I was standing next to a very tall pine tree in northern Wisconsin when a bolt hit it and corkscrewed around the trunk to the ground about a foot from where I was standing.

It blew the bark off about an inch deep and two inches wide and raised every hair on my body. I thank God I'm still alive.

23 posted on 04/02/2014 4:09:46 PM PDT by tractorman (I never miss a chance to tweak a liberal.)
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To: RegulatorCountry
The Guiness record holder for most times struck by lightning (7)...

Roy Sullivan, Shenandoah Park Ranger. I remember seeing him on Johnny Carson one night. Had a pretty good sense of humor.

24 posted on 04/02/2014 4:17:51 PM PDT by Hatteras
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To: Ladysforest

In the category of electromagnetic phenomena, I worked with a lady who fried two computer hard drivers over time. Several times before the computer failed, it would stop working. I had to go over there and touch the mouse, keyboard, tower and monitor before the computer would work again. She had bad vibes. It was odd.


25 posted on 04/02/2014 4:50:49 PM PDT by Redcitizen (When a zombie apocalypse starts, Chuck Norris doesn't try to survive. The zombies do.)
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To: tractorman

Lucky it didn’t follow a root out from the trunk and knock you off your feet.


26 posted on 04/02/2014 4:56:42 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: Cicero
I was sitting by the beach at South Beach Miami Beach back in 1988 when it was still a mix of Cubans and old folks living in those huge old hotels by the beach on their social security. It was a mild cloudless day, without a hint of bad weather. Then, from nowhere, there was a flash and a crack of thunder about 100 feet away on the beach. Lightning had struck someone dead in an instant, and he just lay there as people ran over to him. Finally, an ambulance drove onto the beach and they took him away. There was no second strike, but a storm came up maybe a half an hour later.

That was absolutely the "Bolt out of the blue", and it gave me a different perspective on life for a while.

27 posted on 04/02/2014 5:24:30 PM PDT by PUGACHEV
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To: Hatteras

Well, they did record “Ride The Lightning”.


28 posted on 04/02/2014 6:15:37 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: PUGACHEV

My son, then 20, got hit by lightning at home while sitting at his computer. It picked him up and threw him into the next room. For the next few months he could see in the dark but he could not walk out in daylight without shades. He kept knocking out electricity by touching stuff. Only permanent damage: one eye is very slightly off line. It is corrected by glasses although only a few eye doctors can diagnose it. One also told him recently he can correct that through eye exercise and may start soon. You learn quickly that doctors generally know nothing about effects of lightning strikes. The only people who were able to perform an examination on his eyes at the outset was an institute on sleep disorders.


29 posted on 04/02/2014 7:52:18 PM PDT by idov
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To: RegulatorCountry

The really strange thing was that there was no loud boom only a very loud crackling and buzzing sound. Must have been inside the compression zone or something.


30 posted on 04/03/2014 6:38:22 AM PDT by tractorman (I never miss a chance to tweak a liberal.)
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To: JoeProBono; TaMoDee

She’ll put a charge in your bumbershoot.


31 posted on 04/03/2014 6:50:10 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: tractorman

The pine in northern Wisconsin must be more dense than what we have growing wild here, scrub pine practically explodes when struck by lightning, so does poplar. Old folks out in the country say poplar “draws” lightning because they’ve got so much water in them. Say the same about dogs too, no idea where that comes from. Chaining them to trees, probably.


32 posted on 04/03/2014 6:59:07 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: RegulatorCountry

Actually the tree was a red-pine planted by my dad in the mid 60’s. They’re very wet right under the bark where the thin membrane separates the bark from the core. Very wet and heavy until they dry out. It was probably 60 feet tall at the time and still has the scar 10 years later


33 posted on 04/03/2014 7:50:15 AM PDT by tractorman (I never miss a chance to tweak a liberal.)
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