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I keep telling you people it ain't all boat drinks and sunsets here.

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1 posted on 09/21/2026 9:25:13 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: Red Badger

Ping!


2 posted on 09/21/2026 9:25:38 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America....so great even the people that hate it won't leave!)
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To: V_TWIN

Good for them.
It rains and thunders daily here. Getting really tired of it. People should not be out in this weather. Let alone walking?
I have to keep my ham radios disconnected from their antennas. I just put up a 30’ tall HF antenna.
Once lightning hit the telephone pole in my backyard. It fried everything connected to cable and power. Lost a dvr, powered subwoofer, pc etc. Now I have every sensitive device on a ups.


9 posted on 09/21/2026 9:37:18 AM PDT by bicyclerepair
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To: V_TWIN

That’s sweet, still walking hand in hand, after 17 yrs of marriage.


14 posted on 09/21/2026 9:43:12 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: V_TWIN

They must be love struck with each other.


16 posted on 09/21/2026 9:43:36 AM PDT by Hyman Roth
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To: V_TWIN

Maybe next time they’ll go to church, too.


17 posted on 09/21/2026 9:44:24 AM PDT by Rio
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To: V_TWIN

We had a cabin in central Utah. My wife was painting upstairs when lightning struck maybe 100 yards away. The frames in the roof of the A-Frame were held together by large steel bolts in the joists with no connection to anything but the wood frame. She got a shock from a spark that jumped from a bolt to the paint brush. Lightning occurs in concert with a large electromagnetic field collapse that can induce currents in metal some distance away. Lightning is no joke.


24 posted on 09/21/2026 9:57:33 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence." -Marx the Smarter (Groucho.))
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To: V_TWIN

If you find yourself in an electrical storm hold a 1 iron over your head because not even God can hit a 1 iron.

—Lee Trevino


26 posted on 09/21/2026 10:02:03 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: V_TWIN

😄

Prayers for those who have been injured.


30 posted on 09/21/2026 10:09:00 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Deus vult!)
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To: V_TWIN

Were the Viking Kitties out practicing the Zot?


36 posted on 09/21/2026 10:19:38 AM PDT by xp38
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To: V_TWIN
But there have been a string of lightning-related fatalities in recent months.

Not sure what this is supposed to mean. Lightning strikes are the most random of random events. There is no trend involving lightning strikes or deaths. Perhaps an unfortunate coincidence but nothing more.

44 posted on 09/21/2026 11:59:13 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: V_TWIN

Aaron Walenga, 48, and his wife of 17 years, Clare Walenga, had just dropped their kids off at church
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They wouldn’t have been struck if they hadn’t skipped church. Just sayin’.


49 posted on 09/21/2026 4:54:33 PM PDT by chickenlips (Neuter your politicians )
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