Posted on 09/23/2025 9:10:30 AM PDT by Red Badger
Just curious. How do they know it was a lightning strike and not other dangers people face in the wild?
What a shame that Andrew and Ian never learned Rule Number One for Lightning Storms.
It's very tempting to seek shelter under a tree during a storm and fool yourself that "Lightning won't get me." After all, who wants to lie down on the ground in a gale downpour?
Good question................
They know by the obvious bodily remains.
Now if they died by lightning and were after dead, eaten by nature ... well
The other thing that's odd is that hunting boots usually have insulating thick rubber Vibram soles. Such shoe soles often provide some protection against electrocution.
Lightning struck a tall pine tree about 70 feet from our house a few years back. It was instantaneous FLASH BOOM with zero delay. The lighting traveled down the tree, blew a vertical strip of bark off on the way down, then went half way around the tree before continuing downward. The way it stripped the bark off down to the cambium was amazing. I lost some electronics in the house from that.
Albuquerque Journal reported the autopsy results today. I know a guy who hunted that area android lightning was a real threat, especially higher up.
As a kid, we had a terrible storm come through on the farm, and there was a ‘strike’ within a mile of the house. Next morning, my dad and I go out....dozen cows laid out....some 30 ft from the tree...dead. Partial split for the tree itself.
Farm insurance was in place....paid roughly 80-percent of value. But by the time you hire a dozer to dig a pit for them...most of the money is used up.
I was nearly hit by lightning. It was earth shaking, no joke. RIP
They were cooked alright...
Can't these people count??
Back in the late ‘60s, I had a summer job working as a lifeguard at an apartment house pool in downtown Washington, D.C. It was a great job in that no one ever visited the pool during the weekdays until after 5 pm, so I had lots of time to myself to read long Russian novels & etc. One afternoon, I was watching a thunderstorm with lightning hitting around the Catholic Shrine on a hill miles away in N.E. section of the city. I remember just having the thought that lightning never seems to stirk nearby, when a tremendous bolt struck the roof of the building right in front of me across the street. The flash and boom were instantaneous, and the bolt was a wide a car with a pink core. The next thing I knew was that I was driving in my car several blocks away, still in my swimsuit. I had apparently run down the stairwell ten stories to the basement garage, got in my car, and drove away in a literal blind panic.
We used to have an a frame cabin in Utah. Once, when my wife was painting upstairs there was a lightning strike about 1/4 of a mile away. A spark jumped several inches from a large bolt in the roof joists to the paint brush her hand. The bolt was in the joists and not otherwise connected to any other metal. Lightning includes a massive electromatic force collapse that can induce currents at a fair distance. Very dangerous.
Quite an experience.
Talk about wrong place, wrong time... It doesn’t getting any more wrong than this.
Never take shelter underneath a tree in a storm............
A month ago, I had a flat in a fierce thunderstorm in the country. Got out to look at it quickly and hopped back in truck. A few minutes later a bolt came down and killed a horse I was watching in the field about 40 feet from me. Knocked it over dead and sent seven others away in flight across the field. I think it never knew what hit it. Later, the owner came out and we talked. The horse was over 30 years old and had had a good life. Then, a clean death.
Can't these people count??
They’re not qualified to do anything other than pretend to be “journalists.” It’s no wonder they can’t even count.
My last clinical rotation in medical school was on Mackinac Island in Michigan. Mother, Father, and daughter were riding bikes around the perimeter of the island when a big thunderstorm blew In from the Straight of Mackinac. They made the mistake of sheltering under a large tree. When I arrived in the ambulance Father was lying dead on the ground with a one inch diameter smoking entry wound on his right temple and a matching exit wound on the bottom of his right foot and a smoking hole in the ground where he had been standing. Mother and Daughter were knocked to the ground and were in shock. I looked at that man and my thought was “Geez buddy, God really wanted you dead!”
What Native Americans call a “Good Death”..............meaning totally ‘Natural’............
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