I can't believe these women have ZERO training on the outdoors, don't have a clue as to what's happening to them, and know how to keep safe from lightning. I suppose there are lots of people with zero training, out for a scenic tour, get out of their car and can experience this. They are REALLY lucky to be alive.
I was always taught to lie flat on the ground. The article says to get into a ball and stand on your toes! I'd like to see somebody on their toes for ten minutes while crouched down in a ball.
Back in the mid-seventies, I was camping above a lake in the Wind Rivers in Wyoming when a big thunderstorm rolled in. The sky was black and we were watching lightning hitting the open rock hill on the other side of the lake. We were young and stupid and didn't take shelter in the car; we just sat there watching the incredible lightning show. I guess I should not be amazed at these women's behavior since I was once that stupid.
At least they had some fun tho.
Darwin candidates.
They drive.
They breed.
They vote.
“The article says to get into a ball and stand on your toes!”
That is not what it says.
The high desert, coupled with a little elevation or altitude, seems to be the trick for some weird stuff.
I was camping solo not too far (as such things are measured out West) from there, and heard a lightning strike a good ways away. About 15 or 20 seconds later maybe, this glowing ball of plasma, about the size of a volleyball maybe cam bouncing, sparking, and hissing right through my campsite and ultimately disappeared underneath my truck. I thought it was going to hit me, and always wondered what would have happened. Definitely made a sizzle swooshing sound as it careened around stuff. It was pretty cool.
Lake in the wind river range?
Pinedale side or riverton
I saw that picture on the Accuweather web site. They said that a few years ago someone posted a similar picture of a child standing with his hair sticking out. Sadly the child was struck and killed moments later.
What our nation's youth once learned from Scouting is now only permitted with a heap of LGBT+ indoctrination.
I was fly fishing in a storm in Western North Dakota once when I got zapped down my fly rod through my arm, down my torso and out my leg.
I threw down the rod and lay flat on the ground.
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.
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.
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!!
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.