I didn't want to post this earlier because it wasn't public information at the time...CGG I assume this is what you were talking about, terrible tragedy to add to your prayer list:
Wednesday, 11 June, 2008 09:52 PM
(Curlew, IA)--Palo Alto county sheriff's officers say a rural Curlew man was killed by lightning this [Wednesday] morning.
Sheriff Dennis Goeders says 20 year old Galen F. Smith was found unresponsive around 9:30 this morning.
Ambulance crews took Smith to the Palo Alto county hospital where he was pronounced dead. Smith was a mechanical engineering student at Iowa State University.
Authorities say he was helping his father in the yard at the time of the strike.
He was helping with chores as he was home from college for the summer. This was not a bad storm at the time; more of a random strike. A great kid; simply terrible.
Source: http://kicdam.com/skin/blurb.php?sectionId=176&contentId=2199925
It hurts to loose a loved one and when they are the special ones, it is even more difficult to deal with it.......I am sorry that this has happened.
My prayers for all of you, may God grant you the strength to deal with it all.
Probably. I know it was in northern Iowa. Prayers for everyone.