When lightening strikes and thunder peals, people go running for safety (or they should). I saw two extremely violent thunderstorms in Florida that were laying bolts all around me and I was jumping and screaming. The whole air was electrified. Those storms were about 25 years apart.
I have talked to people who have been struck. While working out at the Sebring airport and racetrack, a friend came in after being examined by paramedics. He'd been leaning against a truck in drizzling rain when the bolt hit near him, and travelled to the metal cab. He was totally "wired" and was still having symptoms years after. I recently saw on TV where a nurse has started an organization that helps people with the unusual symptoms they experience that often haunt them years after.
But getting hit twice?? The odds of that are pretty remarkable, but I've heard about it before. Is that LUCK??
Or a different blood chemistry?
I'll bet in the old days, people made legends or gods out of people who were struck. I'd like to interview the guy.
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- And you think your luck is bad??
- No puns, this time. Just more bad luck.
- probability Theory and "bad luck"
- re: And you think your luck is bad?? - Yes, he was lucky. (n/t)
- Was he lucky?
- Shouldn't this be on Current Events? (n/t)
- This story sparks my interest. (n/t)
- Shocking! (n/t)
- I certainly got a charge out of it. (n/t)
- He might find it Re-Volting (n/t)
- Nah, it was just a flash in the pan (n/t)
- That suggestion might meet with some resistance. (n/t)
- I don’t think I deserve a battery of charges. (n/t)
- Just pray if you're convicted, you get a dry cell. (n/t)
- I might short-circuit in such limited capacity (n/t)
- Only without the proper insulation. (n/t)
- Of course the current situation can alternate and become direct. (n/t)
- Do you mean like the series of parallel puns now making the circuit? (n/t)
- You win. I have become static. I feel drained :) (n/t)
- I feel re-generated! (n/t)
- Watt-ever. (n/t)
- In fact, I'm positively recharged. (n/t)
- I bet he had to change his short(s) after that (n/t)
- Do you think he has a loose wire now? (n/t)
- his new mantra: Ohm....Ohm . . . (n/t)
- Do you think he has a loose wire now? (n/t)
- I bet he had to change his short(s) after that (n/t)
- I feel re-generated! (n/t)
- You win. I have become static. I feel drained :) (n/t)
- Do you mean like the series of parallel puns now making the circuit? (n/t)
- Of course the current situation can alternate and become direct. (n/t)
- Only without the proper insulation. (n/t)
- I might short-circuit in such limited capacity (n/t)
- Just pray if you're convicted, you get a dry cell. (n/t)
- I don’t think I deserve a battery of charges. (n/t)
- He might find it Re-Volting (n/t)
- I certainly got a charge out of it. (n/t)
- Perhaps he's just well grounded in reality. (n/t)
- Clearly the guy pissed off Zeus
- Na, just a stroke of bad luck. (n/t)
- he's living up to his potential, though. (n/t)
- As long as the unfortunate victim doesn't die electric. (n/t)
- Maybe he was negative all the time (n/t)
- He was known to blow a fuse. (n/t)
- Because he failed to conduct himself properly. (n/t)
- Before the incident he was quite the energetic person. (n/t)
- Unfortunately, he's pretty static now. (n/t)
- but well grounded (n/t)
- I wonder if he'll make the talk show circuit. I bet they would get a charge out of him. (n/t)
- but well grounded (n/t)
- Unfortunately, he's pretty static now. (n/t)
- Before the incident he was quite the energetic person. (n/t)
- Because he failed to conduct himself properly. (n/t)
- He was known to blow a fuse. (n/t)
- Maybe he was negative all the time (n/t)
- As long as the unfortunate victim doesn't die electric. (n/t)
- he's living up to his potential, though. (n/t)
- Na, just a stroke of bad luck. (n/t)
- Clearly the guy pissed off Zeus