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Florida deputy injured after lightning strikes patrol vehicle....Officials said deputy is expected to be okay
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| Updated: Aug 6, 2023 / 04:10 PM EDT
| by: Sara Filips
Posted on 08/07/2023 5:41:29 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: V_TWIN; Joe Brower; NautiNurse
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posted on
08/07/2023 5:42:09 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
I have read that Florida has more lightening strikes than any other state.
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posted on
08/07/2023 5:46:14 AM PDT
by
Graybeard58
(Celebrating 42 years of sobriety this year, thank you Heavenly Father.)
To: Graybeard58
We have more targets.....................
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posted on
08/07/2023 5:46:57 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
And the strikes often seem to pop up out of nowhere, with little or no indication of a pending strike.
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posted on
08/07/2023 6:04:22 AM PDT
by
DaBroasta
("An armed society is a polite society" Heinlein)
To: Red Badger
Since lightening usually seeks the easiest path, either up or down, to ground maybe the vehicle just got in the way of the strike and was the tallest structure around..
To: antidemoncrat
Wrong place at the wrong time.........Cars get hit by lightning all the time
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posted on
08/07/2023 6:11:14 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
Just imagine if this cruiser had been an e.v. !!
It would light up like a torch and burn for days.
Not likely any human would survive an e.v. lightning strike. You’d be locked in the inferno.
To: Red Badger
Wow! I always thought cars were the safest place to be during a ,ightening storm if you were out and about. Guess not.
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posted on
08/07/2023 6:34:39 AM PDT
by
Bob434
To: Bob434
There was on a few years ago, in Kansas IIRC, where a lady was travelling down I-70 and was hit.
The lightning bolt made a perfectly round hole in her windshield about 6 inches across, and thru the passenger seat and floorboard........................
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posted on
08/07/2023 6:39:28 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Graybeard58
Yep, lightning capital of the US. If you’re out on the golf course and see dark storm clouds coming. Get off the course asap.
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posted on
08/07/2023 6:41:17 AM PDT
by
Pollard
(The US government has US citizens as political prisoners!)
To: Bob434
People think that because the vehicle sits on rubber tires that it is safe.
A lightning bolt can traverse 20 miles in a second...a few inches of rubber is no problem................
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posted on
08/07/2023 6:44:17 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Graybeard58
Yeah and it’s all Desantis’ fault, too.
To: Red Badger
Sheesh- imagine driving along, kinda zoned out, and having that happen out of nowhere? She musta jumped 5 feet if the car was a convertible
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posted on
08/07/2023 6:55:22 AM PDT
by
Bob434
To: George from New England
You’d be locked in the inferno. Why? All EVs have manual latches on the front doors, at the least.
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posted on
08/07/2023 6:57:25 AM PDT
by
TangoLimaSierra
(⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
To: Pollard
If you’re out on the golf course and see dark storm clouds coming. Get off the course asap. Or hold up a one-iron.
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posted on
08/07/2023 6:59:47 AM PDT
by
TangoLimaSierra
(⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
To: Red Badger
Yikes! I guess being inside a vehicle isn’t as safe as we were always taught.
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posted on
08/07/2023 7:00:55 AM PDT
by
NautiNurse
(🇺🇸 Selling out the U.S.A.: The Briben Brand™)
To: NautiNurse
Not safe at all.
A lightning bolt can travel 20 miles in a second...a few inches of rubber is no problem..............
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posted on
08/07/2023 7:02:12 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: DaBroasta
And the strikes often seem to pop up out of nowhere, with little or no indication of a pending strike. A bolt from the blue.
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posted on
08/07/2023 7:03:15 AM PDT
by
NautiNurse
(🇺🇸 Selling out the U.S.A.: The Briben Brand™)
To: Graybeard58
I’m m from Fl originally. When we were kids as soon as the first thunder started in the distance you knew to get out of the water immediately.
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posted on
08/07/2023 7:22:33 AM PDT
by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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