OK, there are enough people here now that I can retry this statistical experiment I tried on the other app about a decade ago:
Has anyone reading this been struck by lightning?
Has anyone reading this been struck by lightning?
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I haven’t either, it’s OK, we are all in a big club together.
As a kid this made lightning seem like a huge threat to my existence
The roller coaster was then immediately struck by lightning and shut down
Golf courses have little in the way to protect you in a storm.
https://www.fox13now.com/2017/07/28/two-girls-struck-by-lightning-in-beaver-county
https://bsky.app/profile/jamesmacaulay.bsky.social/post/3l7kaqzwoqx2f
I figured we were probably safe to walk home instead of run, because we were surrounded by trees, but then one of my niblings pointed out that I was carrying a metal water bottle.
We ran.
He remains one of the most interesting people I've ever known.
Not helpful to your survey but interesting at least to me
there’s a lot of theories around why, too!
Most people probably didn't realize you made a longer thread.
Hopefully you hear some fascinating testimonies.
He was struck in the most redneck ass way ever- in the middle of a storm, on top of his house, trying to tune in the TV antenna.
My dad was an electrician, incidentally, and lightning made him anxious.
yeah i’ve been struck by lightening, i would not recommend.
holding a 12’ metal pipe that my partner, atop a metal ladder on a floating dock, tried pounding into the lake bottom with a loose-headed sledgehammer. Zeus must’ve figured we weren’t worth the effort.
So if she had moved a bit, perhaps I wouldn't be here.
A teenager was standing at the edge of the pavilion smoking a cigarette in flip flops, her feet in the growing water.
HAM antennas: exploded
Old barely-functional TV: put out of its misery
Air conditioning: killed
Ethernet switch: mortally wounded
Ethernet adapter: killed
Pontiac: magnetized
Stucco exterior: ablated holes, both ends of house
he was usually a rather stoic Appalachian man, but any time the story came up he was visibly sad
as a child, I secretly feared I'd be struck, too
Was standing in the doorway when a tree in the field out back was struck. I *felt* the pulse of energy move through me and smelled the tang of it. The fire department arrived and doused the tree.
I don't eff around in a lightning storm.
He remembered none of this
(Kiwis please, no horrid comments)
Here is a nice primer on it
https://www.weather.gov/safety/lightning-struck
So not quite
I did hear the crack while I was at school (primary) - she got hit walking to pick us up.
- a male cousin, outdoors
- my SIL’s uncle, while standing at a window
- a teacher’s grandparent, while riding his horse
- the teacher’s grandparent’s horse, obviously
No...
We got all of the participants down in under 3 minutes when we saw the storm in the distance, but one pole got hit w/3 of us left. Stayed conscious, no cool scars, felt like a combo gut punch & brain zap
(And I've tried)
But i know at least one person that has (and lived!)
(semi-joke answer)
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The other very inebriated partygoers, pick her up and attempt to carry her to a car to get her to the hospital.
But, due to their intoxicated state, continually kept dropping her on the way.
Apparently, a couple of factors went into her surviving.
1. Every time they dropped her. It actually gave her heart a little jump start. Or something to that effect.
And I don't know if it was a nudist thing, but I do know that she was naked at the time.
Not much I won't do to avoid storms now.
Another part of me thinks that this can't be true, because either the rubber tires would mean nothing would happen, or something more dramatic should've.
What happens is the metal car conducts the electricity around you so well that you feel no effect. Then it finishes jumping to the ground.
cool dude.
amazing dude, has taught me a lot of really amazing things, like how to do sacred geometry by hand.
Picture it. Raystown. 1987.
This is what I came for
Lightning
Strikes every time she moves
The right view may be 'of course, any group of 6 posters will have a lighting strike survivor and a lotto winner among them' for all I know.
The first time she had some scorching. The 2nd, some stroke-like symptoms. She recovered by it was scary.
(More seriously, the electricity travels along your nerves, and that can change how they operate a bit. You're lucky it just made you more sensitive, rather than saddling you with chronic pain or something.)
It's like a Van der Graaff generator. A lot of electrical charge hanging out on your body means the hairs all electrically repel each other.
It's the same effect outdoors; charge is building up. Lightning is what happens when the charge gets big enough to leap through the air.
I was at work just below where this happened. It's the loudest thing I'd ever heard, and I wasn't flying. I can't imagine being ON a plane when it happens!
i suddenly found myself being hugged by this random person and we mutually decided to pretend that never happened. plane was fine.
I’ve also been in a very nice house north of Sydney when lightning struck a big tree ~50m away. It exploded & split in half.
I have no idea if I've actually seen it or not - I have some photosensitivity issues that arose in my mid twenties that make me question some things - but I've seen St. Elmos Fire on a schooner's mast!
Honestly I should. Ultimate self-insert fiction
Not me, but someone I know on here
When I was in Middle School, I was walking home from the Bus Stop. I was several feet away from a light pole, when a bolt came down and made the largest BOOM I have ever heard.
I was knocked on my ass, not from any shock, by force, fear, I don’t know.
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Heavy rain
Saw lightning run down hill with the water
He was playing the accordion at a church when lightning struck the steeple. Grandpa was under the steeple and also got some of the lightning. There were sparks coming out of his fingers.
He's the last one of my grandparents left alive. Coincidence? Who knows.
I remember the lightning vividly because of that! (2/2)
Someone I knew in high school was also struck and survived.
Lightening so thoroughly blew apart the tree in my front yard a decade+ ago it made the news. Thankfully no one was injured then.
anyway, he had a big red blotch on his arm and lived to be 86 or so.
Because personally I feel like that would sour me on the rain storm experience at least a little bit.
If metaphorically, how romantic.
magician tarot holy fool acid head type so it somehow makes sense
met someone who was present at each independent event so its relatively verified
No, I don’t generally stand close to him.