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I know a fellow that’s been directly hit by lightning 2x the first time stopped his heart and he had to be resuscitated the last blew the bottom out his feet he’s still hobbling around but when a thunder storm is near you don’t see him

PGA officials had suspended play and told all to seek safe cover 30 minutes before the strike. There was a hospitality tent near the strike and in the video you can see a few people walking by just before the bolt hit. PGA took proper precautions but I guess not everyone heeded the warning.

In ground school you are taught that you may encounter lightning in clear air within 5 miles of a thunderhead. All I know is I'm not going to physically challenge that assertion.

I've been on AZ mountains in monsoon season and had that tingling sensation of static electricity building. I just bailed for the lowest, places I could get to the fastest, off the ridges and down into the canyons. But that's not always enough for some unlucky people. Never been very close to an actual strike however. At least 100 yds to the closest I think. Good enough for me.

I've seen a few trees on my property and elsewhere blown to pieces by lightening. I don't want to even think of what it would do to a person.

Winner winner....

Cool picture, but a minute later they were dead.

My grandpa got nailed while riding his horse in his Montana pasture....... dead.

I've been in the mountains more than once during a thunderstorm, and have a healthy respect for lightning.

Elk hunting Colorado, I had just spent about 2 hours serious effort to get on a ridge I wanted to hunt. A gentle sprinkle of rain started and became enough I thought I should get my poncho on before I got really wet. I leaned my pack & rifle against the tallest tree at the top of the ridge. No hint of lightning yet.

Just then I heard a low rumble of thunder way off, like 20 miles away? I'm thinking I need to pay attention and if it gets closer I need to get off this ridge. Just as my head poked thru the poncho I was blinded by the atomic flash about 300 yards down the ridge. Ears ringing, smell the ozone close.

Pack & rifle on my back in about 5 seconds, I ran downhill in 3 minutes what took me 40 minutes to climb!

Some years ago I was bow hunting along a ridge in a heavy snow storm. Then the fireworks started. Because of the heavy clouds and falling snow, I couldn't see the lightning but I could sure hear the thunder, all around me. I've never bailed off a ridge so fast in my life. I went straight down off that thing.

When I was a kid my Dad and I were riding horses. Rain started coming in so we ran them back to the house...gates were closed and we didn't want to take time to open gates etc...drive in basement door was open and the truck was out so we ran up to there, dismounted, and led the horses in. Stood there inside the door just watching it rain. Lighting hit a corner post on the fence about 90-100 yards away and blew the bottom of it out. It was LOUD. I don't know who jumped more, the horses or us. Luckily the horses didn't go ape crap and settled down quick. My ears rang for a long time.

We lost horses and cattle to lighting several times when I was a kid. Every couple of years I'll lose an electric fence charger to it. I NEVER work on a fence when there's a chance of lighting.

We have an exchange student staying with us and our kids this year. He's amazed at the thunder storms and lightening.

hole in one, guess god can make one.

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We were up north a couple weeks back when the wildest lightning storm that I've ever seen went through just south of us. It was like a strobe light with a flash every second or so. It had straight line winds and tornadoes that turned Oconto County into an official disaster area. Two years ago a strike hundreds of yards away knocked out two of our HDMI TV connections.

Closest that I've ever been was trolling for salmon out on Lake Michigan. I had a Sage carbon fishing pole in the pole holder and I could hear some rumbling off in the distance, so I knew that something was coming. I went to reach for that rod (lightning rods are carbon) and there was a blue flame of static electricity that met my hand! Never again. There was a warning on that rod about lightning, but I didn't believe it until right then.

Scary stuff for sure