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Don Day Says Women In Viral Video Lucky They Weren’t Fried By Lightning
Cowboy State Daily ^ | March 06, 2024 | Andrew Rossi

Posted on 03/07/2024 11:06:37 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom

Two women laughing and smiling in a viral video with hair standing straight up from static electricity were likely in the path of an imminent lightning strike and are lucky they weren’t fried


If...the static electricity in the air makes your hair stand on end, a lightning strike isn’t a risk. It’s imminent. Those were the circumstances behind a viral video filmed at the Horseshoe Bend Overlook in Arizona’s Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. A woman filmed her mother as her long hair stuck straight out from her head and static crackled from the end of her pointed finger on an overcast day.

The mother/daughter duo were all smiles as they claimed having found “a magnetic portal.” [Egads! Kooky liberals]

...meteorologist Don Day said if the women knew the truth of their situation, they wouldn’t find it so enchanting. “If people are in the vicinity of that static charge building up, there's a very high likelihood that they could be in the path of a lightning strike. It's very serious business.” Day believes...that the women were standing in the pathway of an imminent lightning strike.

Despite appearances, lightning isn’t random. It’s well-known that lightning tends to be attracted to metal and “the tallest points” on a landscape, but he said there are observable signs of where lightning is likely to strike the ground. “Before a lightning strike, you get a pathway from the ground up to the cloud. Charges are built up between the positive and the negative, and when they build up enough, you're going to have a lightning strike.”

...these pathways indicate the general vicinity where a lightning bolt could strike. That could be between a few feet and several yards, and there’s no safety within that area of effect.


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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: lightning; outdoors; safety
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To: FamiliarFace

Nice story and SO nice you remember mama being there to comfort you!


21 posted on 03/07/2024 12:35:51 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Idiots. Yeah, it’s imminent. That happened to me at Pike’s Peak with my arm hair (not so much on the head at my age) and we had to quickly jump right back in the car.


22 posted on 03/07/2024 12:38:02 PM PST by mikey_hates_everything
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To: Texan5

In West Glacier, a huge thunderstorm came ripping up the valley at night.

BOOOOOOOMMMMMMM!!!!!!!

SPARKS flew out of all the sockets lighting up the cabin brighter than day.

In the morning, we saw the tree 20 feet from our cabin had been blown to pieces, with chunks 100 feet away.


23 posted on 03/07/2024 12:38:05 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (Objective: Permanently break the will of the population to ever wage war again.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Thanks, she was a real gem. One of the world’s best Mamas.


24 posted on 03/07/2024 12:44:55 PM PST by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Another point of caution in the close proximity of a lightening strike is not to breathe in the ionized air at the moment of the strike.   A large intake of air is a natural result of a fright.   Try to overcome that natural reflex and hold your breath for a moment.
The initial high temperature and pressure inside the lightning channel cause the oxygen in the air to react with the other gases.

Nitrogen, which makes up 78% of the atmosphere (see Chapter 1), oxidizes inside the ionized lightning path to become various oxides of nitrogen (NOx). During rainout, the NOx can fall as acid rain (nitric acid), which hurts the plants and acidifies streams and lakes on the short term. But over the long term, the NOx rained out can help fertilize the soil to encourage plant growth.

Even the oxygen molecules (O2) can be oxidized within the lightning channel to become ozone (O3), which we smell in the air as a sharp or fresh odor. Sometimes this odor is carried down and out from the thunderstorm by the downburst and outflow winds, which we can smell when the gust front passes just before the thunderstorm arrives.

Because of all this oxidation, we can say that lightning causes the air to burn.


25 posted on 03/07/2024 1:05:25 PM PST by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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To: higgmeister
https://geo.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Meteorology_and_Climate_Science/Practical_Meteorology_(Stull)/15%3A_Thunderstorm_Hazards/15.02%3A_Section_3-
26 posted on 03/07/2024 1:06:43 PM PST by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

that actually happened to me once out on my boat!! I had no clue what it was at the time but soon found out when I came in later and when I got home, googled it. I should have ran out and bought a lottery ticket!!


27 posted on 03/07/2024 1:09:03 PM PST by sit-rep
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I would quickly dig a grave and lie down it in — just in case I got hit would save on funeral costs. And don’t forget to throw the metal shovel a few yards away.


28 posted on 03/07/2024 1:25:50 PM PST by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
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To: Texan5

My house is the highest point in the town I live. I have replaced 3 well pumps, well pump controls, 2 microwaves, 2 washers, 4 TV’s, 2 boiler controls, numerous outlets, radios,, and computors electronics etc, all due to lightning strikes, not fun.


29 posted on 03/07/2024 2:17:31 PM PST by ABN 505 (Right is right if nobody is right, and wrong is wrong if everybody is wrong. ~Archbishop Fulton John)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
"Please interpret that for us."


30 posted on 03/07/2024 2:43:29 PM PST by TexasGator
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To: TexasGator; ProtectOurFreedom
“The article says to get into a ball and stand on your toes!”

That is not what it says.

Yes it is.

31 posted on 03/07/2024 2:46:56 PM PST by norcal joe
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To: norcal joe
Previous: “The article says to get into a ball and stand on your toes!”

Mine: That is not what it says.

You: Yes it is.

Below is a paste from the article. For the reading challenged, sitting is different from standing.

“Crouch down to make yourself the smallest target possible, then lift your feet so you're only sitting on your toes. "

Standing

Sitting


32 posted on 03/07/2024 2:57:36 PM PST by TexasGator
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

We had a guy in my hometown who died when he was struck by lightning. Fast forward 20 years and his son is in the front yard enjoying a barbecue. A storm brews up and he tell the friend next to him, It won’t hit me, my dad died that way. Seconds later he is struck by lightning and dies.


33 posted on 03/07/2024 3:05:43 PM PST by mware
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To: TexasGator

The poor dear...I see a direct circuit path through those conductive metallic spikes. She’s done for if she goes outside like that. She needs your gentle assistance to get her safely back inside.


34 posted on 03/07/2024 3:13:10 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: TexasGator

LOL, that “sitting on your toes” is a great way to prevent getting hit by lightning. I could do that for maybe 0.5 seconds, though.


35 posted on 03/07/2024 3:14:26 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: mware

Wow, bad karma!

The worst is “clear air lightning” where lightning can strike up to 25 miles from its cloud of origin on a clear day, traveling a horizontal route before it eventually reaches the ground.


36 posted on 03/07/2024 3:16:41 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: TexasGator

She looks like close to a ten in the kitchen, then the lightning must have really changed her?


37 posted on 03/07/2024 3:27:32 PM PST by Varsity Flight ( "War by 🙏🙏 the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18. Nazarite prayer warriors. 10.5.6.5)
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To: Texan5

Lived to tell at least...👍


38 posted on 03/07/2024 6:46:26 PM PST by one guy in new jersey
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To: one guy in new jersey

Divine intervention, I’m convinced-a lot of people who get struck don’t survive, or end up permanently injured-I was thrown into a wall and knocked completely out for a few minutes-the charge came down the antenna wire to the stereo and into my left hand and arm when I was turning on the stereo-it burned my arm, hand, but I did not have any permanent damage. I still have the T-shirt my hubby had made for me that says I survived lightning...


39 posted on 03/07/2024 7:42:49 PM PST by Texan5 ("You've got to sadldle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line...")
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
This 1-hour digital course is designed to foster a deeper understanding of the unique challenges that people of color face when accessing the outdoors.

Oh, my word. Outdoors in the city is a whole lot worse for POCs than anyplace whatsoever in the wildnerness.

40 posted on 03/11/2024 4:54:33 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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