Talk about an unlucky death.

Rhys Essien

So you’re out in the wilderness minding your own business when a bolt of lightning comes out of the sky and kills you stone dead. Now that’s unlucky or did she do some very bad things.

https://www.itv.com/news/2019-06-08/woman-killed-by-lightning-strike-while-hiking-in-highlands/

Rubberchikken

i think she was just unlucky and in the wrong place at the wrong time. poor woman.

cml387

True, but Glencoe is certainly an austere and spooky place for something like that to happen,poor lady.

Your Face

Poor woman.

Immortal Starlight

I was in my sitting room watching tv one night a few months ago. There was thunder going on but I wasn’t taking too much notice until I heard a noise like sizzling. Then there was a massive blue flash that lit up the hallway and room. Went out to the kitchen where everyone else was and we were all fairly shocked. It happened again and then moved on. It was frightening enough. I’d never seen lightning strike so close before. Must have been a horrible way for the poor woman to die.

PGE1970

Is there a lucky way to die?

Your Face

PGE1970 wrote: »

Is there a lucky way to die?

Drowning in pussy

pablo128

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://amp.independent.ie/irish-news/orange-flash-as-killer-bolt-of-lightning-struck-boy-14-26484753.html&ved=2ahUKEwi7-8vT5dziAhX-RBUIHWnLBWgQFjABegQIBhAI&usg=AOvVaw0mjC3L0T3ZhFP5_4ZTqjIp&ampcf=1

Your Face

Your Face wrote: »

Drowning in pussy

I dunno, there'd be an awful smell

Quandary

PGE1970 wrote: »

Is there a lucky way to die?

Death by snu snu...

CelticRambler

Nothing "unlucky" about it - hiking on a bare mountain, so she would probably have been one of the tallest things there = asking to be hit. She's about the same age as me, so should have had the opportunity to learn - like I did, from my parents, that lightning kills you, especially if you're standing up in the wide expanse of a field, a beach or a mountain. Basic country wisdom.

There was a lad vaporised by a lightning strike a few years ago, walking across a football pitch in Knocklyon. Not unlucky, and not that uncommon.

Rhys Essien

And an even more freak way of being killed.

https://www.livescience.com/53639-did-meteorite-kill-indian-man.html

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

Poor woman. It’s like a Six Feet Under opener.

wakka12

CelticRambler wrote: »

Nothing "unlucky" about it - hiking on a bare mountain, so she would probably have been one of the tallest things there = asking to be hit. She's about the same age as me, so should have had the opportunity to learn - like I did, from my parents, that lightning kills you, especially if you're standing up in the wide expanse of a field, a beach or a mountain. Basic country wisdom.

There was a lad vaporised by a lightning strike a few years ago, walking across a football pitch in Knocklyon. Not unlucky, and not that uncommon.

Yeh we should all be walking around in fear of being hit by lightning :rolleyes: Lifetime risk of being hit by lightning is 1 in 13,000, and one in a million in any given year ,its extrememly uncommon and even more uncommon to be killed by it

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

wakka12 wrote: »

Yeh we should all be walking around in fear of being hit by lightning :rolleyes:

Well, I don’t know about you but we were instructed not to go outside during thundershower as kids and told what to do if we got caught in one. It’s a fairly unlikely thing to happen but there are precautions that can and should be taken.

Your Face

Cake of Tremendous Power wrote: »

I dunno, there'd be an awful smell

Maybe with the yokes you get.

Gael23

I imagine she went into cardiac arrest and died rather quickly

wakka12

wakka12 wrote: »

Yeh we should all be walking around in fear of being hit by lightning :rolleyes: Lifetime risk of being hit by lightning is 1 in 13,000, and one in a million in any given year ,its extrememly uncommon and even more uncommon to be killed by it

wait

1 in 13000

f*ck thats *way* shorter odds than id have thought

4Ad

A man in East Clare (20+ years ago) got electrocuted while on a landline phone during a thunderstorm..

I have a massive fear of thunderstorms, dating from 1963 when I was two years old and staying in my aunt’s house in Bray. There were balls of fire rolling along the road after one of the strikes. Another time there was a lightning strike right outside our house. It was night with extremely heavy rain. A man had just got out of his car, immediately a fork struck very close to him, it’s a ball of light rolling towards a metal drain, and an immediate explosion. No harm came to the man who ran into his house. Loads of terrifying moments of lightning to reinforce my fear. The only place I’m not afraid is inside an airplane, where it’s normally safe.

nokia99999

Roy Cleveland Sullivan
Sullivan. A prominent burn mark is visible on his ranger hat. Roy Cleveland Sullivan (February 7, 1912 – September 28, 1983) was a United States park ranger in Shenandoah National Park in Virginia. Between 1942 and 1977, Sullivan was hit by lightning on seven different occasions and survived all of them.

cml387

I always thought the danger of hiding under a tree during thunderstorms was being struck by the lighting itself. Then I saw film of a tree being struck, and the violence of the explosion would kill you by the shards of wood being blasted outwards.

fritzelly

nokia99999 wrote: »

Roy Cleveland Sullivan
Sullivan. A prominent burn mark is visible on his ranger hat. Roy Cleveland Sullivan (February 7, 1912 – September 28, 1983) was a United States park ranger in Shenandoah National Park in Virginia. Between 1942 and 1977, Sullivan was hit by lightning on seven different occasions and survived all of them.

Really should have looked for a job indoors after the first 3 hits - somebody was trying to tell him something

gctest50

[Deleted User] wrote: »

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The only place I’m not afraid is inside an airplane, where it’s normally safe.

Ball Lightning is mad for a spin on aircraft, roll doen the aisle and vapourise an unlucky pasenger :

At BL impact, 15 aircraft were climbing, 7 descending; most were at cruising altitude. 42 (48%) reported BL outside the aircraft, 37 (43%) inside, 7 (8%) both in-and outside. No damage was reported in 34 (39%) cases, 39 objects (45%) caused minor damage, 11 major damage (13%), 3 even resulted in military aircraft losses. 3 objects caused minor, 1 major crew injury. 23 damage cases were associated with BL inside the fuselage; all 4 crew injury cases were of that BL type.

Gael23

I remember hearing a story about some woman who decided to go sunbathing wrapped in tinfoil and cooked alive.

kowloon

PGE1970 wrote: »

Is there a lucky way to die?

This way?

fritzelly

kowloon wrote: »

This way?

Eeeek

con___manx1

People can be struck by lightning and be perfectly fine. I bet that woman had steel in her hiking boots so she wasnt earthed. Rubber soles and the lightning would just of passed through her.

wakka12

Deleted User wrote: »

wait

1 in 13000

f*ck thats *way* shorter odds than id have thought

Also 90% of people who suffer lightning strikes survive though

StupidLikeAFox

Gael23 wrote: »

I remember hearing a story about some woman who decided to go sunbathing wrapped in tinfoil and cooked alive.

I heard about a man who took so much drugs he thought he was an orange and peeled himself to death

When my late mother was a teenager, in tbe 1930s, the family used to go to Arkliw, and stay in a small hotel/lodging run by the Arklow Brennans. The family would go to a local beach which used to exist but had since been eroded away. One day they were on the beach, the teenage children in the water, when a massive dark cloud appeared in the sky and literally turned day into night. Obviously a massive cumulonimbus. The girls thought it fun at first, as they were standing in the water watching the horizon, with parents sitting on the sand. Then suddenly a series of Bsll Lightning dropped from the sky down onto the sea, rolling on the horizon and appearing to Co e towards them. They scattered ashore, all running back to the lodging. Alas, the mother was rather obese and arthritis, and could not run, and she begged them, including her husband to stay back. But it was every person for themselves at this point. Back in the lodging there was an odd woman, described by my mother as a ”spiritualist” as she’d be looking skyward when addressing said spirits. The thunderstorm put her on extra high alert for messages from above, and my Mum and her siblings got a great laugh out of that. The power of a thunderstorm to make you realize sudden death could be imminent!

strandroad

CelticRambler wrote: »

Nothing "unlucky" about it - hiking on a bare mountain, so she would probably have been one of the tallest things there = asking to be hit. She's about the same age as me, so should have had the opportunity to learn - like I did, from my parents, that lightning kills you, especially if you're standing up in the wide expanse of a field, a beach or a mountain. Basic country wisdom.

There was a lad vaporised by a lightning strike a few years ago, walking across a football pitch in Knocklyon. Not unlucky, and not that uncommon.

So if you are in open terrain and a serious thunderstorm starts what should you do?
I was on some long hikes where you were the tallest element for miles. I suppose you could lie down?

CelticRambler

strandroad wrote: »

So if you are in open terrain and a serious thunderstorm starts what should you do?
I was on some long hikes where you were the tallest element for miles. I suppose you could lie down?

That's exactly it. Lie down and get wet.

road_high

Immortal Starlight wrote: »

I was in my sitting room watching tv one night a few months ago. There was thunder going on but I wasn’t taking too much notice until I heard a noise like sizzling. Then there was a massive blue flash that lit up the hallway and room. Went out to the kitchen where everyone else was and we were all fairly shocked. It happened again and then moved on. It was frightening enough. I’d never seen lightning strike so close before. Must have been a horrible way for the poor woman to die.

Did it hit your house or what?

Immortal Starlight

road_high wrote: »

Did it hit your house or what?

No thankfully but it must have been pretty close. I’ve never heard lightening sizzle before and hopefully I won’t again. It was frightening and makes you realize how dangerous it is.

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Yes it hit the building I used to work in a good decade or so ago now.

I was walking into a room and there was a sizzling, a massive white/blue flash, a bang and dry electrical type smell afterwards. In the moment I felt I could see people like they were skeletons in X rays - obviously a trick of the flash.

Anyway, it had hit the building, it knocked out some electrical equipment/aeriel/internet connections on the roof.

boardie100

CelticRambler wrote: »

Nothing "unlucky" about it - hiking on a bare mountain, so she would probably have been one of the tallest things there = asking to be hit. She's about the same age as me, so should have had the opportunity to learn - like I did, from my parents, that lightning kills you, especially if you're standing up in the wide expanse of a field, a beach or a mountain. Basic country wisdom.

There was a lad vaporised by a lightning strike a few years ago, walking across a football pitch in Knocklyon. Not unlucky, and not that uncommon.

i doubt she started hiking in the middle of the thunderstorm... she could have been in the middle of a full day hike

goodhans2019

well, i think it maybe just because he didn't do the right thing or do not have the proper way to protect himself in the stormy day. and luck just 10% at most.

Bob Harris

con___manx1 wrote: »

People can be struck by lightning and be perfectly fine. I bet that woman had steel in her hiking boots so she wasnt earthed. Rubber soles and the lightning would just of passed through her.

With wellies on she probably wouldn't have noticed only for a slight tingling in her fanny.