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64 Killed by Lightning Across Bangladesh, Reports Say
abc news ^ | 5/15/16

Posted on 05/15/2016 12:50:09 PM PDT by StCloudMoose

More than 60 people have been killed by lightning over the past two days during tropical storms across Bangladesh, local media said Saturday. Most of the 64 lightning deaths since Thursday have occurred in rural Bangladesh, where farmers are busy with the current harvesting season, leading Bengali-language newspapers Prothom Alo and Samakal reported. The reports of casualties could not be verified independently, with lightning deaths not usually monitored by government agencies. Experts say increased deforestation and people's exposure to metal equipment like cellphones are the reasons behind lightning deaths in Bangladesh.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: bangladesh; cellphone; killed; lightning

1 posted on 05/15/2016 12:50:09 PM PDT by StCloudMoose
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To: StCloudMoose

These don’t sound like the people likely to own cell phones, which I doubt are lightning attractors in the first place.


2 posted on 05/15/2016 12:54:18 PM PDT by sparklite2 ( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
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To: StCloudMoose

Uh, let’s see. De-forestation and climate discombobulation are the culprits. Alrighty then.


3 posted on 05/15/2016 12:57:31 PM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: sparklite2

Had a friend many years ago (when I was a young teen) who was struck by lightning and killed instantly, just crossing a street. Was out in the open, crossing a four lane road.

When your number’s up, it’s up...


4 posted on 05/15/2016 12:58:12 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: sparklite2

Maybe they were playing golf at one of the Trump courses and using a 1 iron without knowing that God is the only one who can hit a 1 iron.


5 posted on 05/15/2016 1:25:18 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: NFHale

I have been very close to a lightning strike, but inside essentially what was a Faraday cage. Caught out in the open in a sudden storm on a farm tractor, with an implement called a flail chopper and pulling a high=rack wagon behind, I got off the tractor and took shelter beneath the wagon, to get out of the pounding rain. The high rack, an all-metal design, was the highest point, and I could feel the static building up around me. When lightning struck the thunderclap was deafening, and faded away with a diminishing sound, due to the Doppler effect, I suppose.

Needless to say, I was not about to budge before the rain stopped completely. Got back on the tractor, soaked to the bone, and drove it back to the buildings.

The good Lord looks out for fools, drunks, children and Americans.


6 posted on 05/15/2016 1:27:21 PM PDT by alloysteel (The Triumph of Trump - finally, does the hegemony of the Republican elites get broken?)
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To: StCloudMoose

In before the “Climate Change will be the death of us all” crowd.


7 posted on 05/15/2016 1:32:19 PM PDT by BipolarBob (I'm so open minded that you should only think like me.)
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To: StCloudMoose
"Experts say increased deforestation and people's exposure to metal equipment like cellphones are the reasons behind lightning deaths in Bangladesh."

Yeah, "experts". Nothing to do with that country's average IQ being 82, islam and them not knowing that they shouldn't take cover under the supposedly few remaining trees during thunderstorms. No, must be the cell phones.

8 posted on 05/15/2016 1:42:11 PM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: StCloudMoose
where farmers are busy with the current harvesting season

My guess is that being pressed to continue working during thunderstorms is more of the cause than cellphones.

9 posted on 05/15/2016 1:46:14 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: BipolarBob
In before the “Climate Change will be the death of us all” crowd.

You really think there's a bunch of Freepers who ascribe to that?

10 posted on 05/15/2016 1:52:28 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (Cruz was my guy but I'll vote for Trump.)
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To: sparklite2

they spoke too loudly for Cruz and Kasich


11 posted on 05/15/2016 1:54:24 PM PDT by Thibodeaux (leading from behind is following)
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To: StCloudMoose

A young guy at work has gotten hit by lightning twice recently. He’s fine.
Not something you see very often.
I think he was fishing both times.


12 posted on 05/15/2016 2:06:01 PM PDT by loungitude (The truth hurts.)
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To: StCloudMoose

God targeting muzzies who kill monks?


13 posted on 05/15/2016 2:17:50 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: ronnie raygun

lol, God is great!


14 posted on 05/15/2016 2:53:35 PM PDT by AllAmericanGirl44
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To: TangoLimaSierra
You really think there's a bunch of Freepers who ascribe to that?

Well, I hope not. It is the BIGGEST scam out there.

15 posted on 05/15/2016 6:44:58 PM PDT by BipolarBob (I'm so open minded that you should only think like me.)
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To: alloysteel

That’s a great tale!

I myself was very near a lightning strike on top of Mt. Tyndall in the Sierra Nevada mountains.

It was so close it felt like getting punched in the chest, like air being sucked out or forced into my lungs.

The rocks around me actually “sang” as the static electricity built up. That was my first clue, and my last.

Anyone else ever hear that noise? Folks think I’m making up that part.


16 posted on 05/16/2016 8:44:19 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (Don't be a lone wolf. Form up small leaderlesss cells ASAP !)
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