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John1040 the Soldier (59) Christine the Lioness spake, and sayeth
Well… they’re actually totally safe now because lightning never strikes the same place twice.
Christopher the Pyro mentioned
WTF? You know that isn’t true Christine… are you just trying to get me to beat you down…
The Empire State Building’s lightning rods in New York City is hit an average of 25 times per year… in fact what is the point of lightning rods if lighting can’t hit the same spot more than once?
Other Fun Facts
The rubber tires on a car can’t protect you. It’s the metal framework of the car that dissipates the force of the lightning. The tires have nothing to do with it. As long as you don’t touch any part connected to the vehicle’s frame, a hard top car, bus, truck or van is safer than being outside.
The average lightning bolt is only one inch in diameter. True. That one inch bolt can carry as much as 100 million-plus volts and pack heat to 50,000-degrees Fahrenheit — that is three times hotter than the surface of the sun.
Lightning kills about 100 people and injures another 500 in the United States each year. Actually, only 10 percent of people struck by lightning die, however, most survivors do suffer lifelong severe medical problems such as memory loss, headaches, dizziness, fatigue, sleep dysfunction, attention deficit and irritability.
Lightning is unpredictable. It can strike up to 25 miles away from its parent storm. It can literally strike “out of the blue”.
ProphetJoe the Irreverent got all philosophical
About 20 years ago, my dog had an outdoor run which consisted of a metal cable strung between 2 trees. From that cable stretched a 40′ lead which allowed him to roam around yard and be able to reach almost to the door (so I didn’t have to go far outside… it’s cold in the winter and I’m lazy). When the dog wasn’t outside, the lead would just lay on the ground.
Well, one sumer day, the thing got hit by lightening and I mean it was deafeningly loud. Steam started rising from the grass and there was about a 12 inch divot of grass removed from the yard. It fried the plastic off of the metal cable and generally freaked us all out. THANKFULLY, my dog was inside when the lightening hit, but from then on, he was deathly afraid of thunderstorms — to the point he had to be sedated when he started to hyperventilate.
What I saw on this video isn’t anything like what I experienced — and I was next to the window when the lightening hit — about 10 foot from where the divot was removed. It was blinding bright and VERY loud. I had ringing in my ears for several minutes after that, but it was the steam, which created an instant fog in our yard, which I wasn’t expecting.
Christine the Lioness spake, and sayeth
Okay… I HAVE to tell this story because I’ve spent the last fifteen years of my life making fun of my sister about it.
When my sister was 15, we were living in Nebraska and there was a crazy thunderstorm going on and my sister, who could, unlike me, spend HOURS talking to her friends on the phone, was standing in her room with the phone to her ear, staring out the window at the storm. As she was chit-chatting away, she picked up a wire coat hanger and stuck it on her head like a pirate’s hat (I’m sure you can envision it, Trouble 
). And there she stood with the wire hanger on her head like some sort of misshapen halo and guess what happens next… Yep. Lightning struck the side of the house and somehow the power surge in the phone caused the coat hanger to shock her.
That was the last time she put a coat hanger on her head.
And yes, Christopher dear… I thought my remark might inspire a comment from you… Manipulative, but necessary. After all, I’m almost a thousand comments ahead of you…
ProphetJoe the Irreverent remarked
and I’m catching up!
Christopher the Pyro pontificated
Only because you always have to have the last work.. or two or three… so with about 600+ comments.. always replying last gives you well over 600 + comments on me.
ProphetJoe the Irreverent mentioned
Do the numbers…
ProphetJoe the Irreverent pontificated
bother you, Christopher?
Christopher the Pyro thought this
See, I can just program you to never reach me Joe.. you’ll get right there… and then your counter will always be right behind me by 1 
Keep_up_with_katie the Groupie got all philosophical
Lightening and sharks…..things that strike you “out of the blue”…
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