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  • Lightning Strike Injures 19 People During Colorado Golf Tournament

    06/20/2004 7:56:51 PM PDT · by nuconvert · 6 replies · 433+ views
    AP ^ | June 20, 2004
    Lightning Strike Injures 19 People During Colorado Golf Tournament The Associated Press Jun 20, 2004 KREMMLING, Colo. (AP) - Four men were struck by lightning and 15 others suffered minor injuries while playing golf atop a bluff in northwest Colorado, officials said. The lightning strike caught many people by surprise Saturday during a golf tournament set up on a makeshift course. Participants, who ran to their cars during a storm, were returning to the bluff when the bolt hit, authorities said. "All of a sudden it felt like someone hit me over the head with a baseball bat," said Kim...
  • Lightning kills woman on her walk to work

    06/18/2004 5:24:04 AM PDT · by Max Combined · 12 replies · 215+ views
    Houston Chronicle ^ | June 18, 2004 | PEGGY O'HARE
    Though an incredible clap of thunder and flash of lightning jarred residents in the Lakeside Estates subdivision off Wilcrest Road, they didn't immediately realize the bad weather had turned fatal. Then they looked outside and saw the Mickey Mouse umbrella upside down in the grass. One onlooker across the street, not immediately comprehending, saw something else lying in the grass before she realized it was a woman's body. "You could see the sandals," said a stunned neighbor, Barbara Sharp. The blast killed Cathy Bombasi, 65, in a yard two doors down from her home as she walked to work in...
  • Fort McCoy Lightning Strike Soldier and Training at Fort McCoy

    06/14/2004 10:34:21 AM PDT · by quietolong · 15 replies · 207+ views
    WEAU TV 13 , WQOW TV 18 ^ | June 14, 2004 | Mandy Grosser
    Fort McCoy Lightning Strike June 14, 2004 Mandy Grosser Link to story On Sunday Morning, lightning stuck a tent at the army's Fort McCoy, injuring 13 soldiers. Officials say two soldiers received medical treatment at the tent and the other eleven were taken to the hospital. Two soldiers remained in serious condition on Sunday night. Officials aren't sure how many soldiers were inside the tent when the lightning stuck. Ironically, more than 2,000 soldiers specializing in medical treatment are stationed at Fort McCoy right now. Some of them provided a helping hand to the lightning victims. Ch 18's story Link...
  • Horrifying US Secret Weapon Unleashed In Baghdad [Tank Mounted Radioactive Lightning Bolts! Yay!]

    12/11/2003 7:12:10 AM PST · by TastyManatees · 158 replies · 3,686+ views
    The Truth Seeker ^ | 8/25/03 | Bill Dash
    Horrifying US Secret Weapon Unleashed In BaghdadExclusive By Bill Dash c. 2003 All Rights Reserved 8-25-03 A nightmarish US super weapon reportedly was employed by American ground forces during chaotic street fighting in Baghdad. The secret tank-mounted weapon was witnessed in all its frightening power by Majid al-Ghazali, a seasoned Iraqi infantryman who described the device and its gruesome effects as unlike anything he had ever encountered in his lengthy military service. The disturbing revelation is yet another piece of cinematic evidence brought back from postwar Iraq by intrepid filmmaker Patrick Dillon. In the film, al-Ghazali, whose english is less...
  • DFU SONG: Christmas 2003 - All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth (just for Hillary)

    12/02/2003 12:36:42 PM PST · by doug from upland · 4 replies · 412+ views
    DFU CHRISTMAS SONGS | Christmas 2003 | Lyrics, Doug from Upland
    NOTE: while the political left hysterically calls our president a Nazi, war criminal, etc., we are able to attack them through humor and mocking. Smile and sing. http://miditrax.com/xmasmidis.htm MIDI - ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS MY TWO FRONT TEETH All I want for Hillary's a lightning bolt...a lightning bolt...ZAP! a lightning boltAll I want for Hillary's a lightning bolt…now, that would be a Merry Christmas She traveled where our soldiers are...their commander she was badly dissingIf she gets lit up by a bolt, on her I won't be ****ing All I want for Hillary's a lightning bolt...a lightning bolt...ZAP!...
  • The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Col Tice & The Unofficial Surrender of Japan(8/25/45)-Nov. 26th, 2003

    11/26/2003 12:03:05 AM PST · by SAMWolf · 164 replies · 1,967+ views
    Lord, Keep our Troops forever in Your care Give them victory over the enemy... Grant them a safe and swift return... Bless those who mourn the lost. . FReepers from the Foxhole join in prayer for all those serving their country at this time. ...................................................................................... ........................................... U.S. Military History, Current Events and Veterans Issues Where Duty, Honor and Countryare acknowledged, affirmed and commemorated. Our Mission: The FReeper Foxhole is dedicated to Veterans of our Nation's military forces and to others who are affected in their relationships with Veterans. Welcome to "Warrior Wednesday" Where the Freeper Foxhole introduces a different...
  • Mel Gibson's 'Jesus' Actor Struck by Lightning for Second Time

    10/23/2003 7:13:18 PM PDT · by truthandlife · 68 replies · 452+ views
    BBC ^ | 10/23/03
    The lightning bolt hit Caviezel and the film's assistant director Jan Michelini while they were filming in a remote location a few hours from Rome. It was the second time Michelini had been hit by lightning during the shoot. Neither of them was badly hurt, according to the film's producer Steve McEveety. Michelini had previously been struck during filming in Matera, Italy, when he suffered light burns to his fingers after lightning hit his umbrella. Describing the second lightning strike, McEveety told VLife, a supplement of the trade paper Variety: "I'm about a hundred feet away from them when I...
  • Man Hit By Lightning Believes God Spared Him (Near-zotting)

    10/20/2003 2:34:07 PM PDT · by mhking · 25 replies · 199+ views
    COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Less than two months after being struck in the head by lightning, Lonnie Boyd is still amazed that he survived with nothing worse than some hearing loss. The 50-year-old Boyd said, "God spared me for something else. That's the only thing I can think of." The Colorado man was boating with a friend in Florida when a lightning bolt struck him over the right eye, knocking him unconscious and frying the boat's electronics along with three dozen shrimp on board. When he woke up a few minutes later, his friend said Boyd's "head was still smoking."...
  • Lightning kills 11 children in Congo [85 injured]

    10/13/2003 12:58:29 PM PDT · by yonif · 4 replies · 112+ views
    Reuters ^ | Mon 13 October, 2003 17:54 BST
    KINSHASA (Reuters) - Lightning has struck a school in the Democratic Republic of Congo killing 11 children and injuring 85, a U.N. official says. Pupils at a school for 200 students in Bikoro in the northwest of the giant central African country suffered burns or electric shock when the thunderbolt hit on Thursday. "Twenty five of the 85 injured are in a coma," the official told Reuters. "Most of the others have second-degree burns." The school buildings sustained virtually no damage, she said.
  • Quick-thinking bystanders save life of girl struck by lightning

    09/05/2003 9:26:56 AM PDT · by Willie Green · 6 replies · 167+ views
    The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ^ | Friday, September 5, 2003 | Patti Dobranski
    <p>It was raining hard when 17-year-old Ashleigh Lawrence, of Harrison City, left the Irwin office of her dentist, Dr. Michael Bresner, late Thursday afternoon.</p> <p>She had no way of knowing Dr. Bresner's healing hands were not yet finished with her this day.</p>
  • Caption this Photo

    09/02/2003 6:31:02 AM PDT · by jriemer · 23 replies · 150+ views
    AP ^ | 8/31/03 | AP
    Caption this Photo: Original Caption: A bolt of lightning strikes near Commonwealth Stadium as fans await the start of the football game between Louisville and Kentucky Sunday, Aug. 31, 2003, in Lexington, Ky. Moments later fans were asked to leave the stands and the beginning of the game was delayed. (Note: The Viking Kitties deny any involvement in the delay or outcome of the game).
  • Huffington says she would `tinker' with Prop. 13

    08/27/2003 8:09:28 PM PDT · by CounterCounterCulture · 14 replies · 269+ views
    San Jose Mercury News ^ | 27 August 2003 | Lori Aratani
    Huffington says she would `tinker' with Prop. 13 By Lori Aratani Mercury News AP Arianna Huffington brushes her hair as she addresses San Francisco's Commonwealth Club of California. SAN FRANCISCO - Political columnist turned gubernatorial candidate Arianna Huffington swept through town today pledging to resolve the California's budget crisis by tinkering with the state's sacred tax cow, Proposition 13 ``To stabilize our budget, we need to build a budget based on a more predictable revenue source -- namely property taxes,'' she told members of the Commonwealth Club. ``There, I said it, and what do you know? Lightning didn't strike me...
  • One killed, 1 hurt by lightning (Motorcyclist in the Wrong Place at the Wrong Time)

    08/25/2003 12:44:39 PM PDT · by Paraclete · 19 replies · 588+ views
    Rocky Mountain News ^ | 8-25-2003 | Julie Poppen
    A 59-year-old Florida man died Sunday afternoon after he was struck in the head by lightning while riding his Harley low-rider in Park County, authorities said. It was the second strike involving people in Park County on Sunday.Colorado State Patrol trooper Laurence Thomas said that at 4:45 p.m., witnesses saw lightning strike the victim, who was riding east on U.S. 24 near milepost 267. Witnesses reported seeing lightning strike the right side of the man's helmet. He then veered off the left side of the highway. The 2003 blue Harley rolled and the driver was ejected into a culvert. The...
  • Blackout-The Terror Question

    08/16/2003 12:41:15 AM PDT · by Pro-Bush · 60 replies · 1,692+ views
    ABC News ^ | 8/15/03 | Brian Ross
    The Terror Question No Signs of Deliberate Attack in Blackout, But Possibility Not Ruled Out Aug. 15— Despite official assurances to the contrary, could terrorists have exploited a vulnerable power grid to cause Thursday's massive blackout? The cause of the failure remains a mystery, as power was gradually returning from the largest-ever blackout in the nation's history, affecting some 50 million people in areas from Michigan to New York. And while there is no indication the power grid was sabotaged, some experts caution it is too soon to rule out any possible explanation — including cyber-terror. "Anybody who says that...
  • "Lightning": Utah firm to build world's third fastest supercomputer for Los Alamos Laboratory

    08/15/2003 6:43:45 AM PDT · by bedolido · 1 replies · 252+ views
    The Salt Lake Tribune ^ | 08/15/03 | Bob Mims
    BLUFFDALE -- Linux Networx Inc., already the proud parent of the world's third-fastest supercomputer, on Thursday boasted it is building an even more powerful system for the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The $10 million contract calls for delivery next month to the New Mexico lab's Metropolis Center for Modeling and Simulation of what will be one of the largest Linux-based clusters -- a supercomputer melding 2,816 AMD Opteron processors -- and among the fastest Linux Intel-based supercomputers in the world. Dubbed "Lightning," Los Alamos' newest mega-brain will come with a theoretical performance of 11.26 teraflops (Tflops), or 11.26 trillion calculations...
  • U.S. skeptical lightning caused outage

    08/15/2003 2:03:18 AM PDT · by swilhelm73 · 15 replies · 228+ views
    Democrat and Chronicle ^ | (August 14, 2003) | The Associated Press and staff reports
    Hours after the blackout hit, officials were still puzzled late Thursday about what caused the system to fail, with investigators concentrating on areas in neighboring Canada and upstate New York. American officials were skeptical about a Canadian claim that lightning triggered the cascade of events when it hit a power plant on the U.S. side of Niagara Falls. Some industry officials and meteorologists also discounted lightning. “ It’s completely false,” said WOKR-TV (Channel 13) meteorologist Glenn Johnson. Johnson said his computers and those at the National Weather Service determined the closest lightning strike in the last 24 hours was in...
  • Wall Street Journal -- Lightning Strike Is Blamed For East Coast Blackout

    08/14/2003 7:02:12 PM PDT · by TroutStalker · 63 replies · 1,730+ views
    The Wall Street Journal ^ | Thursday, August 14, 2003 | Dennis Berman, Carl Bialik, Marilyn Chase, Jesse Drucker, Stacy Forster, Paul Glader, Jon E. Hilsenr
    <p>A massive power blackout hit U.S. and Canadian cities Thursday, closing nuclear power plants from New York to Michigan, driving workers in New York and Toronto into the streets, and shutting subways in blistering heat.</p> <p>Canadian officials said that the power outage was caused by a lightning strike at the Niagara power plant, setting off outages that spread over 9,300 square miles.</p>
  • Canadian Officials Provide Conflicting Accounts, Blaming Outage on Lightning or Fire

    08/14/2003 9:07:57 PM PDT · by hole_n_one · 36 replies · 283+ views
    AP ^ | 8/14/03 | Tom Cohen
    Aug 14, 2003Canadian Officials Provide Conflicting Accounts, Blaming Outage on Lightning or FireBy Tom CohenAssociated Press Writer TORONTO (AP) - Canadian officials insisted a massive blackout Thursday across the Northeast and parts of Canada originated in the United States, though U.S. power workers denied that and American officials blamed Canada. In the hours of confusion after the outage - the biggest in U.S. history - Canada's government offered conflicting explanations for the blackout, blaming it first on lightning in Niagara, then a fire at a Niagara plant, and next a fire at a Pennsylvania nuclear power plant. Canada's defense minister...
  • Nine cows killed by lightning strike (Virginia)

    08/12/2003 8:38:08 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 34 replies · 188+ views
    DailyPress.com ^ | 8/12/03 | AP
    AMHERST, Va. -- Nine cows on an Amherst County farm were killed when they were struck by lightning during a thunderstorm. Owner Vi Evans said the cows were standing near a cedar tree which was also struck by the bolt on Sunday night.
  • Mouths are unfit to host live bluegills

    08/10/2003 12:54:22 PM PDT · by rface · 10 replies · 212+ views
    Columbia, Missouri Daily Tribune ^ | 8.10.2003 | Dave Barry
    This is a special time of year, as expressed so poetically in the lyrics to the haunting song "Summertime" from "Porgy and Bess": Summertime, and the livin’ is easy Fish are jumpin’ And gettin’ lodged in the throats of fisherpersons Those lyrics are as true today as when they were first performed way back in a specific year that I plan to look up later. Just this June, according to an Associated Press article sent in by many alert readers, an angler who was angling near Macomb, Ill., had to be rushed to the hospital when a 4-inch bluegill became...