Herlinger was a Cincinnati occupational safety & health coordinator in risk management, according to a statement from City Manager Patrick Duhaney.
An Occupational Safety & Health Coordinator takes shelter under a tree during a lightning storm?
Posted on 09/06/2019 5:19:51 AM PDT by csvset
CINCINNATI – Three women were jogging through Cincinnati’s Spring Grove Cemetery on Friday when a security guard—seeing a storm approaching—offered them a ride, a cemetery rep tells WLWT.
They declined the offer, and all three were hit by a lightning strike moments later as they sheltered under an oak tree. The strike killed Danielle Brosious, 27, who would have celebrated her first wedding anniversary in November. A second woman, Patty Herlinger, was rushed to the hospital but succumbed to her injuries Wednesday, WLWT reports. Brosious’ mother was not seriously injured.
“Spring Grove is deeply saddened by this tragic accident,” the cemetery’s president, Gary M. Freytag, tells the Cincinnati Enquirer.
“It’s just terrible timing of the whole thing. It’s just unfair,” a friend tells WCPO. She adds Brosious—a member of the Delta Gamma Sorority at Northern Kentucky University, from which she graduated in 2014 before earning a master’s degree in kinesiology at Eastern Illinois University—was “just too good.” She “took pride in being the best friend she could be and never fell short” and was “the glue that held a lot of us together,” according to her obituary.
Patty Herlinger worked for more than 30 years as a Cincinnati city employee and was remembered as a beloved friend and co-worker during a city council meeting Thursday, according to WLWT. Fellow employees held a moment of silence for Herlinger.
“Obviously a very sad day,” said Cincinnati City Council member P.G. Sittenfeld. “Our thoughts and prayers are certainly with Patty and all of her friends and family.”
(Seeking shelter under a tree isn’t ideal.)
Everyone thinks they are safe under a tree, or somehow drier, but you NEVER stand under a tree in a thunderstorm.
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Falling limbs can suck too
Geez, bad situation. Lie in a ditch by the side of a road, I guess. Don’t lie near a gravestone, even.
“Two joggers zapped by lightning in cemetery, hundreds reported dead. Breaking news at 11...”
“...hundreds reported dead...”
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DNC optimistic
Yeah, I was taught as a kid not to stand under a tree during a thunderstorm. Especially a lone tree out in a field or on a hill, as lightning often strikes at the highest point over the spot that will be hit as it courses down to the ground. They would have been safer to keep running...back to their car. Cars have a lot of metal but are (as I was told) grounded by the rubber on their tires.
LOL! Will you be here all week? How’s the veal? :-)
Cars have a lot of metal but are (as I was told) grounded by the rubber on their tires.
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The way I understand it, cars are safer because the tires insulate you from being grounded. If there is enough water, that is not totally true, but like an aircraft, the shell of a car will conduct the charge around you instead of it going through you anyway
If you get caught in a T-storm on the golf course just hold a 1-iron above your head because even God can’t hit a 1-iron.
Unfortunately that sort of wisdom is learned on a farm... not very many people these days have such backgrounds.
They're not grounded by the tires, on the contrary, the tires act as insulators, electrically isolating the car body. Where I live, school buses drag metal chains on the ground from their undercarriages, although this is mostly to discharge static potentials that can interfere with their two-way radios.
You're protected in a car because the car's body is metal, which will redirect an electric field around what's inside it, an effect which is related to the "Faraday Shield" phenomenon. There can be no electric field inside a continuous conducting shell; this is a consequence of Maxwell's Equations. The window apertures on a car's body prevent it from functioning as an ideal Faraday Shield, but it comes close enough.
If lightning does strike a car, the current will find its way to ground, typically by arcing from one wheel to the pavement over the sidewall of a tire, which can on occasion ignite the tire and set fire to the car. This actually happened to a neighbor of mine, who was not in the car when it was struck.
Herlinger was a Cincinnati occupational safety & health coordinator in risk management, according to a statement from City Manager Patrick Duhaney.
Stupid can be deadly.
grounded by the rubber on their tires.
http://www.weatherimagery.com/blog/rubber-tires-protect-lightning/
Damn, Wade Phillips really let himself go.
They mustn’t teach the young uns anything anymore everybody I know knows not to go underneath a tree when a lightning storm comes or get off the roof on a aluminum ladder a storm is in the backyard
Herlinger was the “top occupational SAFETY officer” for the city.
Zot!
After turning down a ride to boot. Strong smart woman doesn’t need advice from some man.
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