Posted on 07/02/2025 7:58:13 AM PDT by DallasBiff
EUFAULA, Okla. —One woman is deceased after being struck by lightning in Eufaula.
Joy Rogers, 57, was taking an evening stroll through a cemetery along her usual two-mile path on Friday when a storm moved through. Joy took a seat on a bench under a tree and was struck by lightning, says her uncle Joe Johnson. Rogers died instantly.
Her uncle said Joy was the life of the party and was truly a ‘joy’ to have at every gathering. According to him, his niece was a lover of nature and would take walks along the lake shoreline. On her walks through the cemetery, she would sometimes take pictures of old tombstones.
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In after the ZOT.
I once saw lightning hit a transformer that was probably about 50 yards away from me. Brightest flash of light I ever saw in my life.
Brightest flash of light I ever saw in my life.
There’ll be another.
Of that I’m certain.
LOL!!!
The old joke goes, “after a lightning strike, it’s not the same place anymore.”
I believe that the longest recorded lightening bolt was recorded in Florida. The total distance was 40 Miles from origination to strike point. (Cloud to ground IIRC.) I am not sure if it was the Weather Service or NASA who was researching this. (NASA does have a lot of interest in tracking and studying any thing that might make their liquid oxygen spaceships explode..)
WOW!!!
THAT is impressive!
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