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It burned a half-inch strip all along his right leg, hit his toe, and left a hole in his shoe. [8] He was hit again in July 1969. Unusually, he was hit while in his truck, driving on a mountain road – the metal body of a vehicle normally protects people from lightning strikes by acting as a Faraday cage. The lightning first hit nearby trees ...
It is estimated that lightning injuries occur 240,000 times a year with 24,000 deaths. [1] Among pregnant women who are hit by lightning, the death of the fetus occurs in about half. [1] In the United States about 1 in 10,000 people are hit by lightning during their lifetime. [1] Males are affected four times more often than females. [1]
2013 February: Nine South African children were hospitalized after a lightning incident occurred on a cricket field at their school, injuring five children on the pitch and four girls who were walking home. [57] 2016 May–June: Rock am Ring festival near Frankfurt was cancelled after at least 80 people were injured due to lightning in the area ...
Here's another 'shocking' fact: The NOAA reports that about 4-5% of people struck by lightning were talking on a corded phone when it happened. Show comments Advertisement
A local Peruvian soccer match was called off due to weather, but as players left the field, lighting struck, killing one man and wounding five others.
A couple's truck was struck by lightning while driving down a highway in Canada. Al and Betty Perry were in their truck on a rural Alberta road when they heard a loud bang and their truck filled ...
"This is the latest in the year that the first lightning death has occurred. Previously, the latest date had been June 9, 2021." Overall, 11 lightning fatalities were recorded across the U.S. in 2021.
A person with astraphobia will often feel anxious during a thunderstorm even when they understand that the threat to them is minimal. Some symptoms are those accompanied with many phobias, such as trembling, crying, sweating, panicked reactions, sudden feeling of using the bathroom, nausea, feeling of dread, insertion of the fingers in the ears, and rapid heartbeat.