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| quote: | Originally posted by Lews
Can't remember any insanely extreme weather, but I almost got hit by lightning once. I was going for a walk, when suddenly it started fucking pouring. Turned around and started heading home when I start seeing flashes of lightning and hearing huge roars of thunder. I was a few blocks from home, when, out of nowhere, I'm simultaneously slightly blown backward and momentarily blinded and deafened. I was just in shock, standing there blinking for a bit, before I noticed all the hair on my arms was standing up and that there was a huge charred area roughly ten to twenty feet in front of me.
Checked it out the next day, it appeared that lightning struck some type of metal sprinkler that was built into someone's lawn right next to the sidewalk.
Didn't really scare me that much, just sort of an 'oh shit, that was close.' I don't really know that much about lightning's effects on humans, but people survive getting struck, right? They just get those weird scares on their skin? |
An average lightning bolt is something like 30,000 degrees so you'd get badly burnt at the least I'd say.
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