Posted on 08/25/2017 10:51:47 PM PDT by Enchante
The 31-year-old Austrian teacher, an avid hiker, had just reached the 9,000-foot summit of a Northern California mountain range ahead of his companions when he raised his arms for a picture and was struck in the back of the head. The electricity shot through his body and exited through his foot, and he was too stunned to know what had happened.
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It really is like an explosion... the closest I came, a bolt hit on the mountain summit maybe only 50 feet from me and it was a rather incredible (scary) experience, but I did not feel the electricity per se..... scared the crap out of me and my friends, though... many years ago now, on a mountain summit in New Mexico. Then other times in WY and in UT, not as close, but maybe 300-400 ft away on ridgelines....
So glad this guy survived, hope the lasting effects will not be serious for him!!
“Thou shalt not commit selfies!”
Hilarious.
He can now buy a lottery ticket and win it!
OMG ROFLMAO!
yep...God was sending a message.
When I saw this I initially thought it was another "No Knock" raid gone wrong.
After lightning:
A girlfriend and I were camping on a ridge above a lake in the Wind Rivers in WY and lightning was hitting the ridge above the opposite side of the lake. It was probably a half mile away and spectacular...but scared me to death.
Years later, two of our young kids and I had just arrived by train in Florence, Italy and were walking from the train station to our hotel. A tremendous storm blew in and lightning hit the building across the street from us. I’ve never heard such a BANG or seen such a brilliant light.
Just this week, I was driving back home from watching the eclipse in Oregon and went through a powerful storm in Modoc Countyin NE California. There was lightning everywhere...striking the mountains all around me, simultaneous flashes on opposite sides she of the valley, cloud-to-cloud. It went on for the better part of an hour with a torrential downpour and blacker than black clouds.
There’s nothing like a big strong storm to make you in awe of nature!
While hiking with Scouts in the Sierra we had to hunker down for a while in the midst of a thunder storm. Lightening all around. Noticed one of the Scouts standing on top of the highest rock in the area with a hiking pole up in the air. He said it was on his bucket list to get struck by lightening. Not on my watch! Sent the SPL to get him down. Never a dull moment.
We tried to summit Culebra in S. Colorado three times in one trip. Each time we were beat back by storms with severe lightning. Each time we had started in clear weather. Each time we sheltered beneath the scrub juniper getting as close to the earth as possible and protect ourselves from the hail as best we could. We saw lightning crash and knock large rocks down the mountain. Nothing to take lightly or with bravado.
Fun trips and great memories.
Never mind. That one leaves me speechless.
Sounds like someone who will eventually win the Darwin Award.
The ghosts of the Donner Party preparing a BBQ?
The ghosts of the Donner Party preparing a BBQ?
Was that actually the same area?
Donner Party:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Donner Party, or Donner-Reed Party, was a group of American pioneers led by George Donner and James F. Reed who set out for California in a wagon train in May 1846. They were delayed by a series of mishaps and mistakes, and spent the winter of 1846–47 snowbound in the Sierra Nevada. Some of the pioneers resorted to cannibalism to survive.
The journey west usually took between four and six months, but the Donner Party was slowed by following a new route called Hastings Cutoff, which crossed Utah’s Wasatch Mountains and Great Salt Lake Desert. The rugged terrain and difficulties encountered while traveling along the Humboldt River in present-day Nevada resulted in the loss of many cattle and wagons, and caused splits within the group.
By the beginning of November 1846, the settlers had reached the Sierra Nevada where they became trapped by an early, heavy snowfall near Truckee (now Donner) Lake, high in the mountains. Their food supplies ran extremely low and, in mid-December, some of the group set out on foot to obtain help.
Rescuers from California attempted to reach the settlers, but the first relief party did not arrive until the middle of February 1847, almost four months after the wagon train had become trapped.
Of the 87 members of the party, 48 survived to reach California, many of them having eaten the dead for survival. Historians have described the episode as one of the most bizarre and spectacular tragedies in Californian history and western-US migration.[2] ...”
Man survives after lightning strike blows him out of his shoes
http://www.cbs46.com/story/25841471/man-survives-after-lightning-strike-blows-him-out-of-his-shoes
You are perfectly safe in an airplane... maybe not
http://www.planebuzz.com/asa2.jpg
Golfing when lightning is around is safe too
http://i.imgur.com/mLXje.jpg
http://www.floridamovielocations2.org/wpimages/wp0_wp0_wp0_wp0_wp0_wp0_wp931dc558.png
Many many many lightning strikes
https://img.quantrimang.com/photos/image/2016/11/07/set.jpg
Man struck by lightning twice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGhFeC68DAc
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