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Originally Posted by Chocolatl
Thanks, guys. It has me pretty shaken up. I mean, it's that thing that is cited as being so statistically improbable. "You're more likely to get struck by lightning than to.... !"
She wasn't a very close friend, but I can't imagine the grief her family must be feeling to have their loved one stolen from them in such a freak accident, so suddenly and without warning.
Here's the Daily Mail's write up. |
I did some research on that claim because I had always heard the same thing.
Well, it seems you are VERY likely to be struck by lightning if you are outside, in the open during a lightning storm. Not as much if you are indoors.
There are also a bunch of different types of lightning strikes with varying degrees of fatality and causing your bones to EXPLODE.
So, yeah. Lightning, better not to be struck by it.