Posted on 06/25/2009 1:58:01 PM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
One 12-year-old Virginia boy was playing baseball when it happened. The same week, a 33-year-old man was struck while jogging in Texas, a 70-year-old California woman was hit while doing yard work and a Kentucky man, 44, fell victim while waiting under a tree for a ride. They are among 11 people killed already this month by lightning strikes in the United States, according to the National Weather Service. "Lightning is very random in terms of fatalities," National Weather Service lightning safety expert John Jensensius told CNN. "We normally see a good amount of lightning in June, but this is unusually high. There really is no good explanation of why that's the case."
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Obama’s fault
We are going to have to tax, license and regulate lightning! Ban all high-capacity thunderstorms!
“...There really is no good explanation of why that’s the case.”
Reason One: More idiots that think they are better than God and defy safety concerns.
More idiots that think they are better than God and defy safety concerns.
I tend to agree, but I think they don’t even think they will be hit.
My own family. I have to drag them back into the house because they’re all standing outside in a storm that has almost 2000 flashes an hour.
I’m reminded of the time I came home from work early one August day to find Mrs. Chandler standing in the swimming pool doing some spot vacuuming of the pool floor. There she was in a body of water, holding an aluminum pole which protruded straight up into the air.
While she was engrossed in her chore, an enormous thunderhead had crept up from the east and was positioned right over the pool.
Global warming! We’re all doomed!
/johnny
/johnny
“Lightning is very random in terms of fatalities,” National Weather Service lightning safety expert John Jensensius told CNN.
My brother-in-law’s son and grandson were fishing in Western Missouri earlier this month when they were struck by lightning. Both miraculously survived although the grandson was badly burned. An Iraqi War vet was nearby and saved them by pulling the son out of the lake and dousing the grandson whose hair was on fire.
Both are expected to make a full recovery.
revolting.
When I was a teenager I felt the tingle of lightening. I was caught out in a field during a violent lightening storm.
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