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Lightning kills man beneath cloudless sky
Miami Herald. com ^
| 22 June 2007
| TERE FIGUERAS NEGRETE AND LUISA YANEZ
Posted on 06/23/2007 7:50:45 AM PDT by Turret Gunner A20
With no rain or even clouds to warn him of the danger, death came literally out of the blue Thursday to a self-employed landscaper. The killer was a powerful bolt of lightning that cracked through perfectly clear skies. David Canales, 41, of West Miami-Dade, was on the job at a Pinecrest home when the bolt hit. It first seared a tree, then traveled and struck Canales, standing nearby.
Experts said Canales was killed by a weather phenomenon fittingly called a ''bolt from the blue'' or ''dry lightning'' because it falls from clear, blue skies.
(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...
TOPICS: Local News; Outdoors
KEYWORDS: clearsky; lightning
Weird.
To: Turret Gunner A20
That’s how I want to go. No sickness, no doctors, no surgery, no chemo, when God wants to take me I am ready to go.
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posted on
06/23/2007 7:55:48 AM PDT
by
Ditter
To: Turret Gunner A20
Gee, that’s like a bolt out of the blue almost.
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posted on
06/23/2007 7:56:36 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Greed is NOT a conservative ideal.)
To: Turret Gunner A20
it falls from clear, blue skies. They say it actually rises from the ground half the time depending on polarity.
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posted on
06/23/2007 7:58:14 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the Treaty)
To: Turret Gunner A20
His last words........”If I miss one more GD putt may God just stike me dead”.......ZOT
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posted on
06/23/2007 8:03:42 AM PDT
by
stm
To: stm
I wonder if he got the George Carlin “Two-Minute Warning.” “....And if I am wrong, may God strike me down dead.”
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posted on
06/23/2007 8:09:51 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(The University of Florida - Still Championship U)
To: Ditter
We should all be that lucky!
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posted on
06/23/2007 8:10:39 AM PDT
by
Disturbin
(01-20-09: Fred's First Day)
To: cripplecreek
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posted on
06/23/2007 8:13:06 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
I was channeling Yogi Berra.
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posted on
06/23/2007 8:14:38 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Greed is NOT a conservative ideal.)
To: Turret Gunner A20
The first question that comes to my mind I am afraid to ask.
Don't want to be labeled insensitive.
Or racist.
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posted on
06/23/2007 8:18:03 AM PDT
by
Publius6961
(MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
To: Ditter
Ether that or killed by a jealous lover at age 101
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posted on
06/23/2007 8:35:11 AM PDT
by
oyez
To: Turret Gunner A20
Spontaneous combustion mystery solved!
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posted on
06/23/2007 9:00:25 AM PDT
by
Niteranger68
(Amnesty….NO MEANS NO!)
To: Turret Gunner A20
"..''They are very unpredictable and very dangerous. We urge people to stay indoors even if you hear thunder only faintly in the distance,'' Dixon said. ``If you're close enough to hear thunder, you're close enough to be struck by lightning.''.."
I don't see people doing that unless they are phobic.
To: Turret Gunner A20
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posted on
06/23/2007 1:08:31 PM PDT
by
Dumpster Baby
("Hope somebody finds me before the rats do .....")
To: Turret Gunner A20
Fascinating. I’ve heard of stories like this but I thought they were debunked. Bump for later followup.
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posted on
06/23/2007 9:55:57 PM PDT
by
Kevmo
(We need to get away from the Kennedy Wing of the Republican Party ~Duncan Hunter)
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