Thanks fellas… I think I’ll walk on the other block and just meet you there. Buena suerté!

I mentioned this story to my wife yesterday, following up with a litany of complaints about the way this country has gotten softer than the sta puff marshmallow man's gut. Then an eyeroll that induced seizures...

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Originally posted by egregore:

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Lightning Strike and Electric Shock Survivors International

I had no idea such a thing existed. I'm sure getting electrocuted is a traumatic event, but a support group?

Who else is going to object to lightning strike jokes?

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Originally posted by Bassamatic:
Shoot, I find it amazing that someone could even survive a lighting strike.

Two years ago, a storm blew thru our area at night. A bolt of lighting struck a mature oak tree that was about two hundred feet from the house. The crack was so loud the wife and I both sat straight up in bed, saying... WTF?

The next morning I walked over to the tree to take a look. This was a big oak, about 2.5 feet diameter at the base. The top one third of that tree was completely gone, lying down a ravine a ways away. The rest of the tree had what looked like a 12 inch slice taken out all the way down to the base. Like if you ran it through a sawmill. Damdest thing I ever saw.

People survive because the duration of the shock is microseconds.

We truly are a nation of the offended, it's social media, giving obscure groups and the odd person a pulpit from which to bitch, preach or condemn.

Any who:

Years ago lighting hit a couple of doors down, I was standing in the garage, reaching out to turn off a water hose/sprinkler since it was raining, got a hit off it, jumped from the sprinkler bib to my finger tip, wasn't even touching the handle, probably an inch or two from it, burned and left a little spot, some tingling in the arm for a while and it wasn't even close to me...

This year a young mother lost her life waiting for her youngest daughter to walk to her across a school crossing.

They were just waiting at the cross walk for her other daughter to get out of elementary school, a storm rolled in fast, as they do in Florida, there were plenty of people around this area, I've picked up my daughter and granddaughter there, it's nothing especially attractive of a lightning strike other than the Oak trees that have been there for many many years...

You never know....

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