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  • Lightning kills man beneath cloudless sky

    06/23/2007 7:50:45 AM PDT · by Turret Gunner A20 · 14 replies · 525+ views
    Miami Herald. com ^ | 22 June 2007 | TERE FIGUERAS NEGRETE AND LUISA YANEZ
    With no rain or even clouds to warn him of the danger, death came literally out of the blue Thursday to a self-employed landscaper. The killer was a powerful bolt of lightning that cracked through perfectly clear skies. David Canales, 41, of West Miami-Dade, was on the job at a Pinecrest home when the bolt hit. It first seared a tree, then traveled and struck Canales, standing nearby. Experts said Canales was killed by a weather phenomenon fittingly called a ''bolt from the blue'' or ''dry lightning'' because it falls from clear, blue skies.