RE: lightning strike

[jpreiser]

 WEll as some of you know I live by the beach... today a man in his 40 sa was up on the beach watching the storm roll in he was struck and died on the spot.. No one knows who he is as he had no Id with him.. Pleae if you come to the beach and A storm is coming in do not go to watch the " big waves"  and neet lightning!! ALso tell some one when you go for a walk, hike, etc... I feel sorry for this guys family...( when they find and tell them)

[tlhdoc]

 jpreiser
What a shame.  You can never tell when lightning will hit.

[jpreiser]

 jpreiser
UPDATE:::
 
  They were able to locate this poor mans family... he has a wife and 2 small children.. they were vacationing here from N>Y>  THe wife said  the man loves to watch storms and decided to check the beach out. His wife told him it was not safe but you know men... anyway poor guy died doing what he loved, but now his wife and young children have to suffer...

[jpreiser]

 jpreiser
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[whitestar505]

 jpreiser
Heard about this on the NOAA weather channel yesterday. You just never know do you.

[DiW]

 jpreiser
I read about it in this morning s paper. Said the lifeguard kicked everyone off the beach. Later the guy returned - They think he was looking for some lost jewelry...
 
 We just got back from 2 weeks in FL. We re used to the daily rainstorms there but this year, we were amazed at the amount of lightning (and a tornado). 2 people died from lightning in the area where we were staying. A doctor was struck when he walked to his mailbox and the other guy was finishing trimming his bushes. His wife had gone inside when the sky darkened.
 Diane

[SheBantam]

 jpreiser
Diane, what part of FLA were you in? I know that Orlando got hit. That was a day or two before we got to Daytona.
 
 The year before I went to HS, in St. Pete, the football team of my HS was struck by lightening killing most of the team and it was not dark, it was a freak thing. It happens.
 
 You hear about that kind of thing from time to time down there.  We had the tropical depression to stir things up a little, where we were, but water was too cold and it stayed to our south.

[birol]

 jpreiser
I like wathcing tunderstroms and stuff, but I sit at the porch. so I am pretty low and the house is around me, sort off, makes me wonder ....[&:]

[DiW]

 jpreiser
Paula,
 I was on the east coast in Hobe Sound. The tornado touched down in Jupiter and then headed south from there. Since my parents and brother used to live in Jupiter (before moving 20 minutes or so north) it freaked them out. THe most damage was further south.
 
 I remember other stories of people getting killed walking along the beach so we always get going quickly. Just isn t worth taking a chance.
 Di

[garym053]

 jpreiser
I like to watch the lightning out over the ocean too. BUT I always stay in my car. Probably not completely safe, but then are we ever really completely safe? This past weekend we were camping in Maine when some severe thunderstorms rolled through. Knowing my wife is very fearful of them I told her to get in the Jeep, and I got in as well and then we drove off to the parking area to watch it over the ocean! But noticed a man with a 5 or 6 year old girl playing on the beach, another man with 2 teenage sons leaning against a telephone pole, his sons were leaning on the chain link fence, a few couples strolling the beach. Lightning was striking all over the place, you d think they d know better!

[jpreiser]

 jpreiser

 
 
 
 
 I read about it in this morning s paper. Said the lifeguard kicked everyone off the beach. Later the guy returned - They think he was looking for some lost jewelry... [/quote]
 
 
 
 
 Actually his wife told the officer who was working with my husband that he loved to watch storms and she told him not to go... needless to say he said that he would be fine and just wanted to check the waves etc...

[Gone-Camping]

 jpreiser
It never ceases to amaze me how people think it ll never happen to them. Getting struck by lightning is probably one of the most preventable deaths there are, but people just ignore the warnings.
 
 I was close about ten years ago. I was new on the Tow Truck, and was picking up a break-down as a storm approached. I didn t think too much of it, lot s of tree s and light poles, and 2-3 story building all around me, but I was in a parking lot surrounded by cars, but my wrecker was the biggest one there, and the boom was up in the air. All of sudden every hair on my body stood on end, and almost instantly a huge CRACK... I instinctively dropped to me knee s but in retrospect, it would have been too little and too late![&:]
 
 My cousin up in Portland Me bought the farm a couple of years ago. He was out on a golf course when a storm came in. Foolishly they ducked under a tree. However, the tree isn t what got struck, but lightning passing through the sprinkler system in the ground carried the bolt right to his foot which he was standing on top of the inground pop-up metal sprinkler head.[]
 
 Your not even safe in your home. My Aunt & Uncle living in Manchester Cn had ball lightning enter an open window, circle the room and exit again. It nearly burnt down the house, but nobody was injured. Maybe that s why they say to close the windows???
 
 When I see a lightning storm approaching now, I go inside and stay there![]

[angelsmom10]

 jpreiser
My bosses son just bought a canoe livery and Fri he had to go out and " pluck"  about 20 canoer s out of a tree because of the rain and lightening we had.  I don t know what would be worse.  Traveling in a canoe on a swallen river with lightening or hanging in a tree with lightening.[&:]

[DC]

 jpreiser
Speaking of lightning strikes.....there were over 2000 reported over last weekend in Montana.....dry storms no rain......312,000 acres burning says the paper....zero% contained.  Forest service guy says it s out of hand.  Gonna have to wait for mother nature (snow).
 
 One freak storm came near here on the Missouri River just a couple days ago.  A bunch of kids and a Preacher were floating the river for a church youth trip.  Lightning nailed the preacher right on the raft.  Hurt some kids.  But one kid, who is a lifeguard at the Y, gave him mouth to mouth.....he came to and is doing all right.  Blew out both eardrums and got a lot of burns but he will make it.
 
 Smoke was so thick yesterday that I had my lights on my car at 7:00PM.  Big wind came up messin with stuff on the deck and I went out and tied stuff down.  Scared the heck out of me.  The smell of smoke was like it was coming from next door.  I could feel stuff hittin my face and it wasn t rain.