Posted on 06/28/2011 8:59:46 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Men stay out in the weather longer than woman.
Women have the sense to go inside when rain starts or thunder is heard.
Ask my wife, she’ll set you straight.
due to work and hobby patterns men are still many times more likely to be in vulnerable places in the outdoors when a lightning storm blows in:
working in the outdoors or playing: on golf courses, on rivers and lakes, on mountains and in the great outdoors, etc.
Ah. Reminds me of being in service, nearly always outdoors, in the boonies, in thunderstorms, carrying one lightening rod or another (M-16, M-60, M-203). Many times, lightening struck within a few feet. There’s nothing like holding such a lightening rod while being showered with sparks from trees above. It’s what enlisted men in the lowest infantry and associated ranks do.
It wasn’t stupidity. We had no other choice (orders, duty, training, no tents, no buildings, not allowed to be in clearings, and never allowed to put the rifles down).
Men or much more likely to be outdoors during an electrical storm.
First, most of your outdoor work is performed by men, while most jobs done by women are in buildings.
Second, men are more willing to take risks like finish a job on a tower in an electrical storm, while women prefer security and would likely be more prudent in taking shelter until the storm passes, rather than finish the job.
I’m more the security type myself. The shift was over and I was still checking steel forms about 90’ high with steel rebar cages in them, to prepare for the concrete pours the next day. Came the rain and thunder and I didn’t think much of it until I happened to look around me and realized I was the highest thing for hundreds of yards around me. I came off that form so fast, flying down 90-feet of slipper rain-drenched steel run construction ladder without using my fall protection. I just snapped to where I felt the risk of being the highest object on a wet grounded metal conductor was a higher risk than slipping on the ladder and falling 90-feet. I was down in an instant, believe me.
My mom got hit right through a window over the kitchen sink while doing the dishes (only suffered minor burns).
Ah, and steel work before that (’70s). I was once an expediter, directing steel to be brought in from a steelyard. There were frequent, close strikes at times. ...no choice there, either. It was that or unemployment. And the pay was less than one-third of the pay according to myths about trade unions.
Hah! I was just thinking the same thing!
A lightning bolt struck a telephone pole less than 10 feet away from me, as I was walking home from school in 1957. The sound was so loud I could not hear it, and I remember running in hysteria to a friend’s house across the street. I couldn’t walk for a while, after I sat down, I was shaking so hard my friend’s mother thought I was having a seizure; maybe I was, but I was not unconscious.
My house has been struck twice, with me in it.
That’s cuz we can take it....
They don’t make us....
They just want to talk us to death so we take our chances....
LOLOLOLOLOLOL
Stoopid.....
LOLOLOL
Better Conductors....
LOL
Men are outside, killing things, where lighting may strike.
Women are inside, cooking the things men kill.
< / Zog >
Misogynist PIG! Next you'll be bringing up the old men work outdoors more than women canard.
I always do and my old lady never does!
Women are more likely to run inside at the first hint of rain.......it’s a “hair” thing.
only fooling
At 20 it hit the barn and ran between the roof and the rebar in the concrete.........at 21 I picked up the tiller and it hit behind me, running between irrigation pipes!
Now I'm in New Mexico and they have dry lightning................any time I see a storm, I just go inside :)
I'm close to six feet, my wife is about five feet. Another reason for her to be happy about her short size.
Does she suddenly put some distance between you and her when you both get caught outside during a thunderstorm?
Are you her first husband and is she one who loves to be outdoors all the time—no matter the weather—as long as she is with you?
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