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Originally Posted by dafreeze
Holy Shhhmokes Rj........I've never known anyone struck before. Were you seriously injured? Lasting effects?
Came very close to getting hit once.
I was flippin' for stockers in a trout pond ~15 years ago with my Godson and his Sister in the Rockies when a fast moving cell snuck up behind us. Suddenly felt a either a stepped leader that didn't connect or simply the sudden difference in potential of an impending bolt...could literally feel it...immense static.
Dropped our rods and started to scrunch down when a bolt struck a small pine behind us ~ 30 yards up the hill. Deafening and at first I thought we had been hit.
~ 10 years ago a jogger got struck and killed by a bolt a half mile from where I was working. He was with his girlfriend and was a little ways ahead of her when 'blammo'. Paper said she'd tried to convince him to knock off and seek shelter just a few minutes before.
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If anything it explains a lot about me then again my parents left me in the desert when I was two! We were moving back east from Washington and Oregon. They left me at a gas station. They got several miles down the road before they figuired it out. I held that one over their heads ever since I found out about it!
