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3 Dead After Apparent Lightning Strike Injures 4 Near White House
NBC News ^ | Aug 5, 2022

Posted on 08/05/2022 7:44:02 PM PDT by 11th_VA

Three of the four people who apparently were hit by lightning near the White House on Thursday have died, Washington, D.C., police said in updates Friday.

James Mueller, 76, and Donna Mueller, 75, tourists to D.C. from Janesville, Wisconsin, were killed, police said Friday morning.

A 29-year-old man also died, police said later Friday. His name was not immediately released.

The Muellers were semi-retired high school sweethearts visiting D.C. for their 56th wedding anniversary, their niece told News4. James Mueller owned a drywall business, Donna Mueller was a teacher, and they had five children, 10 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. ..

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcwashington.com ...


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Hmmm - maybe a metaphor for us all …
1 posted on 08/05/2022 7:44:02 PM PDT by 11th_VA
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To: 11th_VA

Biden dodged a bullet on that one.


2 posted on 08/05/2022 7:45:58 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: 11th_VA

3 posted on 08/05/2022 7:50:17 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Vote Democrat and stay on the plantation!)
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To: 11th_VA

Near the White House? I didn’t think you could get within a mile of the White House. I think NBC news is just playing up the sympathy card.

That said, prayers for the Muellers.


4 posted on 08/05/2022 7:51:17 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Fake News. Might be true; but it’s designed to distort, mislead, brainwash and BS sheeple. )
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To: 11th_VA

The lightning struck the wrong people.


5 posted on 08/05/2022 7:51:37 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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“apparent” lightning strike...

Would that be like an “apparent” tsunami?


6 posted on 08/05/2022 7:53:50 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: 11th_VA

VIDEO
This Appears to be the lighting strike that hit 4 people at Lafayette Park in DC
https://rumble.com/v1etcvp-appears-to-be-the-lighting-strike-that-hit-4-people-at-lafayette-park-in-dc.html


7 posted on 08/05/2022 7:56:41 PM PDT by janetjanet998
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To: Responsibility2nd

“Near the White House? I didn’t think you could get within a mile of the White House.”

You need a new thinking cap!


8 posted on 08/05/2022 7:58:02 PM PDT by TexasGator (ice )
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To: Gene Eric

I think Hannity or some Fox host played the video of it.

Creepy, a bolt of lightning struck within a couple hundred feet of the White House main entrance.


9 posted on 08/05/2022 7:58:19 PM PDT by traderrob6
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To: Responsibility2nd

“That said, prayers for the Muellers.”

They are dead ...


10 posted on 08/05/2022 7:58:46 PM PDT by TexasGator (ice )
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To: TexasGator

Praying for the dead is one of the spiritual acts of mercy.


11 posted on 08/05/2022 8:00:17 PM PDT by livius
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To: metmom

Yes. A sad story. If you are where they were, there’s no place to shelter during a lightning storm. The church the anarchists tried to burn down is there, but a fair walk for the elderly.


12 posted on 08/05/2022 8:02:36 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
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To: 11th_VA

Please let them be mistaken and let it be Brandon, Suck Machine, and Nanzi


13 posted on 08/05/2022 8:03:05 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: metmom
"The lightning struck the wrong people"

Janesville?  Where is Lyin' Ryan when you need him.
14 posted on 08/05/2022 8:03:36 PM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute. )
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To: livius

Agreed. They were just tourists visiting the Capitol. Very sad.

High School sweethearts. 56 years of marriage. Well there is one single not-terrible thing only-they went out together. Their family is in pain, but they didn’t have the pain of one going first, and one being left behind.


15 posted on 08/05/2022 8:06:04 PM PDT by rlmorel (Nolnah's Razor: Never attribute to incompetence that which is adequately explained by malice.)
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To: janetjanet998

Bkmk


16 posted on 08/05/2022 8:08:52 PM PDT by kelly4c
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To: Gene Eric

Believe it or not, I just read that global warming might have caused this.

I’ll choose “not” myself.


17 posted on 08/05/2022 8:10:14 PM PDT by seowulf (Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos...Will Durant)
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To: seowulf

I will go with “not”.


18 posted on 08/05/2022 8:12:33 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: 11th_VA

How sad. Big trip to celebrate their 56th wedding anniversary. Probably so excited to be there. Prayers for the comfort of their children and grandchildren.


19 posted on 08/05/2022 8:13:31 PM PDT by McGavin999 (To shut down the border tell the administration the cartel is smuggling Ivermectin )
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To: 11th_VA

No one is guaranteed one more breath.


20 posted on 08/05/2022 8:14:18 PM PDT by Born in 1950 (Anti left, nothing else.)
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