Posted on 07/04/2009 3:47:58 PM PDT by Mmogamer
Lightning strikes
Lightning happens at this time of year. Florida is flat...go figure what it will hit.
Lightning is part of life in Florida. Another palm, or Pine bites the dust.
1 (already) dead and 18 injured isn’t same as hitting a palm tree.
What the heck did the post say? “Lightning Strikes” Well, damn!!! That’s real news isn’t it?
Who or what is “Twitter BNO”?
Breaking news on twitter...
A lightning strike at a July Fourth church event in North Lakeland killed one person and injured 28 others this afternoon, including 19 who were taken to hospitals, Polk County officials reported.
Eighty or more people were gathered at 4444 Viola Road as part of an event put on by the Iglesia Batista Maranatha Church, the Polk County EMS and Fire Rescue reported.
The group was playing soccer and participating in other outdoor activities when the lightning strike occurred. First reports indicated lightning struck a “wooden pole barn.”
Multiple emergency units responded, taking victims to Lakeland Regional Medical Center, Bartow Regional Medical Center, and South Florida Baptist Hospital in Plant City.
The thing about lightning is you can be in what appears to be pretty decent weather and have lightning strike. I think people assume you have to be standing in the middle of a thunderstorm to be hit by lightning. It can come out of seemingly nowhere. When I was in high school a football team in our city was practicing on a field and they heard a storm way off in the distance, yet it struck the field and killed a couple players. Being a native Floridian, I have a healthy respect for it, yet I see golfers on the course, with their clubs raised in the air during lightning storms...go figure.
Trevino was asked by a reporter what he would do if he were out on the course and it began to storm again. Trevino answered he would take out his 1 iron and point it to the sky, “because not even God can hit the 1 iron.”
A friend of mine in Georgia had an uncle struck and killed by lightning from a calm clear sky. Apparently it can hit 25 miles or more away from the storm, since that is where he was, sitting on his porch.
I have also witnessed some stupid golfers gathering under trees in Hilton Head, SC.
My own personal rule: If you can hear thunder, get inside.
because of posting restrictions, often more info is in post #1 (as is the case here) ... helps to read sometimes ;)
Thanks....now I'm "with it"!
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