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| Fri, 05/17/2013 12:00 PM unknown | Jesse Watlington | 0.0 | M | FL USA |
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| Southwest Florida Christian Academys lightning detector was still inside the school at the time 11-year-old middle school football player Jesse Watlington was struck by lightning last October. And no coaches were on the practice field with Watlington or his teammates when it happened. Those details emerged from the depositions of six football coaches taken in April in the multimillion lawsuit Watlingtons parents filed against the school and its affiliated church, McGregor Baptist. The News-Press obtained nearly 600 pages of testimony from its partner WINK News earlier today. The lawsuit, filed last November, six weeks after Watlington died in a Tampa hospital after being removed from life support, claims there were dark storm clouds in the area when Watlington and his teammates were told to go out on the practice field and that it wasnt until five to eight minutes after he was struck that a school staff member began performing CPR. Charles Watlington, Jesses father, said he filed the suit because he wanted the facts to come out and to ensure his son did not die in vain. Return to news-press.com for more on this story. | ||||||||
| Fri, 05/17/2013 12:00 PM Killed | 13 year old boy | 13.0 | M | General Santos City Philippines |
taking shelter under a tree | Outside,Taking Shelter,Under Trees | ||
| A swimming outing with friends proved fatal for a 13-year-old boy who was struck by lightning in General Santos City, police said Friday. The 13-year-old sought shelter under a mango tree after swimming when rain suddenly fell and lightning struck him, radio dzBB's Tuesday Niu reported. Initial reports reaching Philippine National Police in Camp Crame indicated the incident occurred Wednesday at Barangay Buayan in General Santos City. At the time, the boy and some friends went swimming but the boy decided to rest under the mango tree when he felt chilly. While he was resting, heavy rain from a thunderstorm fell on the area. ELR, GMA News | ||||||||
| Fri, 05/17/2013 05:00 PM Injured | Rodney Benton | 0.0 | M | Iroquois Ontario Canada |
leaving baseball field | Baseball or Softball,Indirect,Outside,School,Sports Field | ||
| An Ontario school teacher says he survived being struck by lightning during a baseball practice this week -- and he considers himself lucky to live to tell the tale. Rodney Benton -- a teacher at Seaway District School in Iroquois, Ont., about 100 kilometers south of Ottawa -- said he believes he survived because he was holding onto the rubber grip of an aluminum baseball bat when it was struck Wednesday during the school teams practice. I saw like a peachy-orange light and fell backward on the ground. It felt like my head was going to explode and my hair was being pulled & up to the sky, Benton told CTV Ottawa. PHOTOS An early summer lightning storm is shown in this May 2012 file photo. Lightning strike survivor Rodney Benton speaks to CTV News about his experience at his home in Newington, Ont., Thursday, May 16, 2013. The Grade 7-8 teacher said he had cut the practice short as the sky darkened, warning his team to head indoors. But he was hit before he could get to safety and staggered into the nearby school. At that point couldn't see much & it was really foggy, he said. It sounded like everybody was off in the distance, talking to me. I couldnt really make out much. Benton was treated for minor injuries at Winchester District Memorial Hospital and sent home to rest. He was still in pain Thursday. Every step hurts. Every movement hurts. Its hard to raise my arms, he said. Although he doesnt consider it fortuitous to be struck by lightning, Rodney does consider himself lucky to be here to tell the story. He and his wife, Angela, have two small children and a third one on the way. He plans on framing the bat. I'm just very grateful that he's OK and I believe someone was watching out for him and the whole family," Angela Benton said. Benton plans to be back to work Tuesday after the long weekend. According to Environment Canada, lightning strikes kill about 10 people annually in Canada and seriously injure 164. With a report from CTV Ottawas Norman Fetterley Read more: http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/ontario-teacher-survives-lightning-strike-thanks-to-rubber-on-baseball-bat-1.1286184#ixzz2TelGD3ig | ||||||||
| Fri, 05/17/2013 12:00 PM Killed | Connie Lou Wake | 54.0 | F | MO USA |
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| Seth Perlman / AP Steve Peters uses a make shift bridge to access dry land in Peoria Heights, Ill. The Illinois River crested at 29.35 feet, eclipsing a 70-year record in Peoria. By Andrew Rafferty, Staff Writer, NBC News A 54-year-old Missouri woman died Wednesday after apparently being struck by lightning, as states along the Mississippi River continue to fight back flooding and farmers struggle in what has been an unrelentingly wet spring in the region. Follow @NBCNewsUS Authorities say Connie Lou Wake was discovered by her son in the front yard of her home in the south-central part of the state. It was the first lightning fatality this year in the state, which had 28 last year. Meanwhile, residents of towns along the Mississippi River in eastern Missouri have been spent the past several days filling and stacking sandbags to keep the river from flooding their homes and businesses. Advertise | AdChoices The mighty river crested early Thursday in St. Louis, reaching 5.5 feet above flood stage before retreating. But the river is still a day or two away from reaching its peak in areas further south in the state. To the north, a damaged lock may keep a stretch of the Illinois River closed to commercial shipping traffic for weeks, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said. Flooding has halted the transport of corn and soybean barges at certain terminals on the river, Reuters reports. The disruptions could cause significant disruptions in the flow of grain and corn in the second-highest soybean producing state. Reuters reports almost 60 percent of U.S. grain exports are transported on the Mississippi River and its tributaries. Grain prices at export terminals at the Gulf of Mexico climbed this week to the highest level in at least a month due to the disruptions. Production has also suffered, as farmers who would normally be planting corn right now are halted because of the wet, muddy ground. Darren Walter, who farms in Grand Ridge, Ill., told the Associated Press he needs warmer weather to dry the ground in a part of the country where temperatures have continued to drop to 30 degrees at night. And while the effects of the heavy downpours will continue to be felt for months, some areas are at least beginning to feel some relief. In North Dakota, officials announced the Red River would crest next week at lower than anticipated levels. The river is still expected to peak at possibly its second-highest level on record, and flood preparations are being made throughout the north-central United States. Reuters and the Associated Press contributed to this report. | ||||||||
| Wed, 05/15/2013 12:00 PM Killed | Lightning kills 58 Cambodians so far this year | 0.0 | U | Cambodia |
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| Lightning bolts had killed at least 58 Cambodian people and injured 48 others so far this year, a disaster control official said Wednesday. Keo Vy, chief of the Cabinet of the National Committee for Disaster Management, said besides human deaths, lightning strikes had also killed 18 heads of cattle. "Since mid-March to date, the country has subsequently suffered from low pressures, causing strong rains with lightning and thunderstorms," he told Xinhua over telephone. He said on Tuesday afternoon, lightning bolts killed three people and injured seven others in two different places in northern Kampong Thom province while there was heavy rain. Keo Vy appealed to people to be more cautious to avoid dangers from lightning. "People should stay in their houses when there are torrential rains with storms and lightning," he said. Cambodia has one of the highest rates in the world of deaths by lightning at 7.8 deaths per million people, he said, adding that last year, lightning strikes killed 103 Cambodians and injured 72 others. Lightning becomes more common in Cambodia, which occurs every year from March to November. | ||||||||
| Tue, 05/14/2013 12:00 PM Killed | Lightning claims eight lives in North Coastal Andh | 0.0 | U | India |
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| NATIONAL » ANDHRA PRADESH HYDERABAD, May 14, 2013 Lightning claims eight lives in North Coastal Andhra Shoppers Choice - Huge Selection. Lowest Prices. Best Customer Service. Shop Today & Save www.ShoppersChoice.com Ads by Google SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT SHARE · COMMENT · PRINT · T+ TOPICS India Andhra Pradesh weather weather news The freak rains and strong gusty winds were caused by a peripheral effect of Mahasen that lurked in the Bay of Bengal for the third consecutive day on Monday; the cyclonic storm will weaken into a deep depression on May 16 before fizzling out Lightning struck at several places late on Sunday night when rains and strong gales lashed Coastal Andhra region, claiming eight lives besides uprooting umpteen number of trees and electricity/telephone poles. Guntur district accounted for four out of eight casualties, Visakhapatnam three and Vizianagaram one. With this, the toll in the three spells of the lightning so far in the State, the first two in April, has gone up 47. The two spells earlier killed 39 persons of varying ages, Disaster Management Commissioner T. Radha said. Trees uprooted Many places in the region plunged into darkness on Sunday night while road links were severed at other places as uprooted trees or branches and electric/telephone poles fell on the roads. By Monday afternoon, the roads were cleared of the obstacles and opened to traffic. No damage to rabi crops The State escaped from an extensive damage to crops as, fortunately, the harvesting of rabi crops have already been completed in Coastal Andhra. The freak rains and strong gusty winds were caused by a peripheral effect of Mahasen, the cyclonic storm that lurked in the Bay of Bengal for the third consecutive day on Monday. The storm, which lay 700 m south-east of Chennai, was heading towards Bangladesh and Myanmar coast. India Meteorological Department, in its cyclone bulletin, said Mahasen would weaken into a deep depression on May 16 before fizzling out. Rainfall recorded The rains that battered Coastal Andhra ranging up to a maximum of 5 cm (reported by Viajayawada), brought down the temperatures, giving the much-needed relief to the people in the region from the ordeal of sweltering peak summer weather. Therlam and Guntur recorded 4 cm each; Padeu, Nandigama, Araku, Addanki, Bapatla, Kakinada, Avanigadda, Veeraghattam, Tadepalligudem 2 cm each, and many other places one cm each. In Rayalaseema, Satyavedu received 6 cm of rainfall; Perumallapalli, Tirupati each 3 cm; and Jammalamadugu 2 cm. In contrast, skies were merely overcast in Telangana where dry weather prevailed with many places, however, recording temperatures only a little above 40 degrees Celsius. Highest temperature The States highest temperature for the day was recorded at 43 degrees C by Ongole, Rentachintala, Kadapa, Kurnool and Nandyal. The weather in the State on Tuesday will not be much different, an official in the State Met Office said. | ||||||||
| Mon, 05/13/2013 12:00 PM Killed | Four children among 5 struck dead by lightning | 0.0 | U | India |
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| Four children among 5 struck dead by lightning PTI SHARE · COMMENT · PRINT · T+ Ads by Google Contractor Time Clock - Go Paperless with 100% Accuracy. Saves You Time & Money Now! www.ExakTime.com MALDA (WB), MAY 13: Five persons, including four children, died after being hit by lightning during a thundershower at Chancold in Malda district, the police said today. Four children Bittu Saha (10), Joyprakash Singha (11), Md Hossain (11) and Mumpy Khatun (13) were killed by lightning at Harishchandrapur village when they went to pick mangoes during a thundershower last night. In a separate incident, one farmer died after being struck by lightning when he was returning from field at Kushal village. Keywords: four children, killed by lightning, Chancold, Malda district | ||||||||
| Sun, 05/12/2013 12:00 PM unknown | Lightning Looks Beautifully Terrifying At 11,000 F | 0.0 | U | USA |
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| GEEK OUT Lightning Looks Beautifully Terrifying At 11,000 Frames Per Second ERIC LIMER TODAY 5:30 PM Share Discuss Bookmark Theres a reason lightning is so often a modifier for fast; you can barely see it even if youre staring at the right place at the right time. But if youre looking at the right place at the right time with a camera that can capture 11,000 frames per second, youre going to see an incredible show. This awesome footage was part of National Geographics Naked Science Lightning Chasers back in 2011, but its as relevant and crazy to watch as its ever been. And as far as we can tell, its still the most detailed footage of a lightning strike ever. Scored with some knowledge-dropping by lightning physicist Vladislav Mazur and meteorologist Tom Warner, this clip is one righteous primer on a beautiful and dangerous natural phenomenon. [Petapixel] | ||||||||
| Sat, 05/11/2013 12:00 PM unknown | Do cosmic rays grease lightning? | 0.0 | U | USA |
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| Do cosmic rays grease lightning? By Katia Moskvitch ScienceNOW Posted: Sunday, May. 12, 2013 SOCIAL MEDIA » Follow our Science and Technology coverage Become our fan on Facebook More Science & Technology Contact Us We value reader comments and suggestions. Contact John Bordsen, SciTech editor. SciTech is independently reported and edited by the Charlotte Observer and The News & Observer of Raleigh. SciTech's sponsor in the printed newspaper plays no role in the selection of the content. Brandon Ivey - MCT FILE PHOTO Russian physicist Alexandr Gurevich says cosmic ray particles ionize the air in thunderclouds. Store Nobody knows exactly what triggers lightning bolts. Now, two Russian researchers say that these discharges of a billion volts or more could be caused by the interaction of cosmic rays high-energy particles from outer space with water droplets in thunderclouds. Cosmic rays are created deep in space by powerful events such as star collisions, gamma ray bursts and supernovae. These cataclysms accelerate charged particles, mostly protons, to very high energies. The rays zoom across space, and those that strike the upper atmosphere of Earth generate invisible but highly energetic air showers of ionized particles and electromagnetic radiation. The idea that these air showers could cause lightning when they pass through a thundercloud has been around for two decades. Russian physicist Alexandr Gurevich suggested that the high-energy particles produced by a cosmic ray strike ionize the air in thunderclouds, creating a region with a lot of free electrons. The thunderclouds electric field accelerates the electrons almost to the speed of light, boosting them to very high energies. Then the electrons collide with atoms in the air, generating even more electrons as well as X-rays and gamma rays. This avalanche of high-energy particles in the cloud which Gurevich calls runaway breakdown provides ideal conducting conditions for lightning. Researchers have debated Gurevichs idea ever since, says Joseph Dwyer, a lightning scientist at the Florida Institute of Technology, who was not involved in the study. But Gurevich hasnt found concrete evidence that cosmic rays are the culprits. Radio waves could provide a clue, Dwyer says: Cascades of electrons at the onset of a lightning strike should produce radio waves. The cosmic ray community has known that cosmic rays make radio waves, and when there are thunderstorms around, its been seen that you get more of these radio pulses, Dwyer says. But no one has yet closed the loop and really shown that the air showers going through (a thunderclouds) electric field making these runaway electrons are the things that are doing it. To test the concept, Gurevich and his colleague Anatoly Karashtin analyzed data from 3,800 cloud-to-ground lightning strikes recorded in Russia and Kazakhstan. The results, reported this month in Physical Review Letters, show that storm clouds emit hundreds or thousands of short, strong radio pulses just before lightning strikes. Their shape, the researchers say, matches their models of runaway breakdown triggered by energetic cosmic rays. But theres a problem: Cosmic rays with enough energy are too rare to trigger all the pulses that Gurevich and Karashtin observed. So-called hydrometeors hail and water droplets in each cloud may be amplifying the pulses, Gurevich and Karashtin propose, and trigger a flurry of microdischarges that boost both the current and the radio pulse signal. But British lightning scientist Clive Saunders remains unconvinced. They have not shown a correlation between lightning activity and the rate of arrival of cosmic rays at the Earth, he said. Most researchers, Saunders said, lean toward another theory: Lightning occurs when collisions between ice crystals and hailstones in storm clouds separate enough electric charge to cause a high electric field. This process alone can ionize the air enough for a lightning bolt to form, he says no cosmic rays required. Read more here: http://www.struckbylightning.org/news/sbl20131205073942_do-cosmic-rays-grease-lightning.html.htm#storylink=cpy | ||||||||
| Fri, 05/10/2013 11:00 AM Injured | Jeremy Garcia | 0.0 | M | Houston TX USA |
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| Posted: May 10, 2013 3:09 PM EDT Updated: May 10, 2013 3:09 PM EDT By Alexander Supgul, Web Producer - HOUSTON (FOX 26) - A City of Houston Public Works and Engineering Department employee was struck by lightning during the fast-moving storms that passed through southeast Texas on Friday. Houston Mayor Annise Parker posted the following two statements on Twitter: Offer prayers for Public Works employee Jeremy Garcia, struck by lightning while at work @ our Seamist facility. In critical condition.-A Thanks to Station 62 for their quick response to Mr. Garcia. They gave him a chance.-A Houston Fire Department Ruy Lozano confirmed that Garcia was taken to Memorial Hermann Hospital - Texas Medical Center after the employee was struck by lightning at 11 a.m. at the METRO north office park on Seamist Drive near Haverhill Drive. Read more: http://www.struckbylightning.org/news/sbl20131105090036_city-of-houston-worker-struck-by-lightning.htm#ixzz2T2HtRyEF | ||||||||
| Fri, 05/10/2013 12:00 PM Injured | Bud Young | 0.0 | M | Charleston WV USA |
weeding outside | Garden,Indirect,Outside | ||
| Charleston , Kanawha County , West Virginia Bud Young is recovering at Charleston Area Medical Center. The Sissonville man experienced an unusual occurrence last Friday. He was hit by lightning. "It was like the whole top of that mountain was coming off. It just hit, just one place and flash," Young said. In fact, since 1993, Young has been struck by lightning four times. The odds against that happening to you just once is estimated at three million to one. "Doctor told me if you ever get hit once, you're more apt to get hit again," Young said. Young said he's never played the lottery before. But when asked if perhaps his knack for beating the odds could be used to win a jackpot, he said he's open to considering the possibility. That's something his nurses are thinking about as well, when asked if they have talked with Young about the lottery. "Not until today," Pamela Cummings, a CAMC registered nurse, said. "But now that we think about it, that would be a good idea for him to play." However, Bud and his nurses are still a longshot to win big money. The odds of capturing the Powerball jackpot are about 175 million to one. Despite the excitement surrounding a record jackpot, the West Virginia Lottery wants you to pump the brakes before you mortgage the house to buy a bunch of tickets. "Play responsibly, stay within your means," Randy Burnside, with the West Virginia Lottery, said. "If you have disposable income and a couple extra bucks and you want to take a chance, go for it." Young said he doesn't believe in luck. He said surviving multiple lightning strikes can be credited to something else. "There's no such thing as luck, I don't think," Young said. "It was the grace of God." Young said his doctors expect him to be released from the hospital in the next couple of days. | ||||||||
| Fri, 05/10/2013 09:00 AM Killed | Cleve Menard | 41.0 | M | Lake Charles LA USA |
fishing on a lake in a boat | N/A | Boat,Delayed Death,fishing,Fresh Water,On Water,Outside,Taking Shelter,Water | |
| Lake Charles man hospitalized after being struck by lightning Posted: May 11, 2013 11:42 PM EDT Updated: May 11, 2013 11:42 PM EDT By Lee Peck - bio | email LOCALmore>> 5A State Tournament Update Updated: May 10, 2013 6:31 PM EDT Barbe trails West Monroe 6-0 in the top of the first. We are currently in a lightning delay and the game won't resume until at least 6:30. As for the rest of the games, here's how the updated schedule More >> Lake Charles man hospitalized after being struck by lightning Updated: May 11, 2013 11:42 PM EDT A Lake Charles man is hospitalized after being struck by lightning. Cleve Menard, 41, is in ICU at Lake Charles Memorial Hospital. Menard was fishing with his brother-in-law Friday morning at Lacassine More >> Jennings woman stabbed, man in custody Updated: May 11, 2013 6:05 PM EDT Jennings Police are investigating a stabbing. According to police a woman was stabbed shortly after noon Saturday. We're told a man is in custody. The victim was taken to a local hospital and is in More >> New hotel highlights new look in Lake Arthur Updated: May 10, 2013 11:34 PM EDT The Bank Hotel in Lake Arthur is open for business and perhaps even encourage more business to the area. Owners and supporters of the L'Banca Albergo held the hotel's ribbon cutting ceremony on Friday, More >> Stews recalled over labels lacking ingredients Acadian Fine Foods LLC is recalling 17,000 pounds of pork and chicken stews because labels don't list whey and soy as ingredients. More >> STAY IN TOUCHmore>> Sign Up for KPLC E-News Download the new KPLC app! LAKE CHARLES, LA (KPLC) - A Lake Charles man is hospitalized after being struck by lightning. Cleve Menard, 41, is in ICU at Lake Charles Memorial Hospital. Menard was fishing with his brother-in-law Friday morning at Lacassine Wildlife Refuge when the storm moved in to the east. As they tried to get to shelter Cleve was struck by lightning. Cleve's brother-in-law would dial 9-1-1, administer CPR and bring the boat into safety. Two former firefighters were also in the area and helped administer CPR until the paramedics arrived. "Mainly I knew I had to check his vitals. I knew he got struck by lightning and I knew there was going to be issues with his heart and his nervous system. So the first thing I did was jump out of the boat and swam over there to his boat and checked his abc's... to check his airwaves and his breathing. He had a very, very faint pulse," recalled Brandon Conner, helped administer CPR. "If it wouldn't have been for the efforts of the three people doing CPR he would be dead by now. I'm sure of that. Out in the middle of the lake, wherever the refuge is. Thank God, that there was help nearby and the diligent efforts of the three people," said Bryan Menard, victim's brother. We'll have more on this story and the amazing efforts to get help Sunday on 7 News Nightcast. LAKE CHARLES, LA (KPLC) - A Lake Charles man struck by lightning has taken a turn for the worse. The family of Cleve Menard, 41, said doctors declared him brain dead. The family said they plan to donate his organs. Menard has been in ICU at Lake Charles Memorial Hospital since Friday after being struck by lightning. Menard was fishing with his brother-in-law, Pete, Friday morning at Lacassine Wildlife Refuge when the storm moved in to the east. "When they saw the weather coming, they tried to get to a bridge and hide but it wasn't quick enough," said Bryan Menard, the victim's brother. As they tried to get to shelter, Cleve was struck by lightning. "Pete was operating the motor and heard the thunder. When he turned around, he saw Cleve laying backwards with half his body in the water. At first, he didn't know what was wrong ... and he questioned him and then he saw his eyes roll back in his head and he knew something was wrong," said Menard. Cleve's brother-in-law would dial 9-1-1, administer CPR and bring the boat into safety. Two former firefighters were also in the area and helped administer CPR until the paramedics arrived. "We were hiding under the bridge, riding the storm out and we saw lightning strike and it was very close. I said it's getting bad. Then we see Pete coming around the corner and he was waving his hands and screaming for help. We didn't know what to expect. When he got closer to us, we realized his brother-in-law was down in the boat and had been struck by lightning," said Brandon Conner. Conner was one of the people who helped give CPR. "Mainly I knew I had to check his vitals. I knew he got struck by lightning and I knew there was going to be issues with his heart and his nervous system. So, the first thing I did was jump out of the boat and swam over there to his boat and checked his ABC's ... to check his airwaves and his breathing. He had a very, very faint pulse," recalled Brandon Conner. They would continue to administer CPR as another boat pulled them to the boat launch where paramedics were waiting. Cleve was taken to American Legion Hospital in Jennings and later transferred to Lake Charles Memorial Hospital. On Friday and Saturday, he was in and out but still responding. Family members said he suffered several strokes overnight and doctors declared him brain dead Sunday morning. Cleve was a 10-year employee of PPG Industries and was a lead operator in the silicas unit. He is survived by his wife of 18 years and three children. The family is establishing an account at Chase Bank for donations to help offset medical and funeral expenses. To help, you can donate to the "Cleve Menard Medical Account." Copyright 2013 KPLC. All rights reserved. | ||||||||
| Fri, 05/10/2013 12:00 PM Injured | Diego Ramierz | 22.0 | M | Sevensville MT USA |
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| STEVENSVILLE, Montana Authorities say a 22-year-old ranch hand struck by lightning while moving irrigation pipe near Stevensville is expected to make a full recovery. Diego Ramirez was struck Thursday. After being unconscious for as long as 30 minutes he was able to get on his motorcycle and ride to a co-worker. He was then flown by helicopter to St. Patrick Hospital in Missoula. Ramirez's employer, Matt Pendergast, tells the Ravalli Republic (http://bit.ly/10zFdBd) the lightning followed the wires on an iPod Ramirez was wearing and resulted in perforated eardrums. No one saw the lightning strike. Pendergast says he thinks it probably hit the pipe Ramirez was carrying. Reports indicate skies overhead were clear at the time. National Weather Service meteorologist Luke Robinson says a storm 20 miles away can result in a nearby lightning strike. | ||||||||
| Wed, 05/08/2013 01:00 PM Injured | Lightning strike injures 39 at Fatherâ¬"s Day part | 0.0 | U | Schwerin Germany |
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| Lightning strike injures 39 at Fatherâ¬"s Day party in eastern Germany 0 Share to Facebook Share on Twitter Add to PersonalPost Save to Kindle Share via Email Print Article More By Associated Press, Published: May 9 BERLIN A lightning strike has injured 39 people, eight of them severely, at a Fathers Day party in eastern Germany. More than 500 people were attending Thursdays event in a village near the city of Schwerin when lightning struck a group of trees and a nearby switch box on the village fairground around 1 p.m. Photos of the day Australian prime minister visits New Guinea, Victory Day, Jerusalem Day, NASAs ionosphere study and more. Wednesday's gallery Latest stories from Foreign China wrestles with stubborn air polluters Steven Mufson MAY 10 Companies violate regulations as rapid growth promises a surge in energy use and pollution. Battle for Russiaâ¬"s political future plays out in provincial courtroom Kathy Lally 7:13 PM ET In Kirov, many dont notice the trial of Alexei Navalny despite implications for democracy and its institutions. Last-minute entries reshape Iranâ¬"s presidential field Jason Rezaian 3:27 PM ET Ex-president Rafsanjani and top Ahmadinejad aide Mashaei announce their intent to run. World Digest: May 11, 2013 6:23 PM ET A roundup of news from around the world. Pakistanâ¬"s Sharif claims victory in historic vote Richard Leiby 5:53 PM ET Wealthy businessman who served as prime minister in the 1990s appears to be headed to an unprecedented third term. Police spokesman Joerg Bruhn said many visitors at the fairground suffered burns and were treated for shock. Two rescue helicopters were called to the village of Dabel as well as several ambulances. On Fathers Day in Germany, men traditionally go on day trips or simply get together to drink lots of beer, without their families. Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. | ||||||||
| Wed, 05/08/2013 12:00 PM Injured | Chris Plowman | 0.0 | M | Malden Ma USA |
outside on phone | Indirect,Outside,Porch,Telephone | ||
| Never answer the phone during a thunderstorm just ask this guy 1 day ago We've all gotten shocking phone calls, but never quite like this. Chris Plowman of Malden, Mass., stepped outside when he got a phone call during a thunderstorm late Wednesday night. He heard a loud noise, and then couldn't see anything for 30 seconds. He was admitted to Massachusetts General Hospital with an irregular heartbeat. Doctors told him he had been struck by lightning and was lucky to be alive. He was out of the hospital the next morning. There is now a burn mark in Plowman's front yard from the strike, just a few feet from where he was standing Wednesday night. "If I would have stepped out another foot or two, I wouldn't be talking to you," he said. [Source] | ||||||||
| Sun, 05/05/2013 12:00 PM Killed | Lightning strikes kill 3 | 0.0 | U | Luzon Philippines |
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| SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union Three persons were killed by lightning in three separate incidents in Northern Luzon last Friday. Police identified the victims as Jimboy Antonio, 16, of Barangay San Andres, Santiago City, Isabela; and Rick Castillo, 13, of Barangay Rizal, Santiago City, both helpers of a duck farm, and Norman Bautista, 21, of Victoria, Tarlac. Richard Coloma, the owner of the duck farm in Santiago City, said Antonio and Castillo were pasturing ducks in the middle of a rice field when a sudden downpour occurred and hit by lightning. Bautista, meanwhile, was about to go back to shore after swimming in a beach in Lingayen, Pangasinan when a lightning bolt struck him. (Freddie G. Lazaro) | ||||||||
| Sun, 05/05/2013 12:00 PM unknown | Study Says Cosmic Rays Grease Lightning | 0.0 | U | USA |
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| Nobody knows exactly what triggers lightning bolts. Now, two Russian researchers say that these discharges of a billion volts or more could be caused by the interaction of cosmic rays high-energy particles from outer space with water droplets in thunderclouds. Cosmic rays are created deep in space by powerful events such as star collisions, gamma ray bursts, and supernovae. These cataclysms accelerate charged particles mostly protons to very high energies. The rays zoom across space, and those that strike the upper atmosphere of Earth generate invisible but highly energetic air showers of ionized particles and electromagnetic radiation. The idea that these air showers could cause lightning when they pass through a thundercloud has been around for two decades. In 1992, Russian physicist Alexandr Gurevich of the Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow suggested that the high-energy particles produced by a cosmic ray strike ionize the air in thunderclouds, creating a region with a lot of free electrons. The thunderclouds electric field accelerates the electrons almost to the speed of light, boosting them to very high energies. Then the electrons collide with atoms in the air, generating even more electrons as well as X-rays and gamma rays. This avalanche of high-energy particles in the cloud which Gurevich calls runaway breakdown provides ideal conducting conditions for lightning. Researchers worldwide have debated Gurevichs idea ever since he introduced it, says Joseph Dwyer, a lightning scientist at the Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne who was not involved in the study. But Gurevich hasnt found concrete evidence that cosmic rays are the culprits. Radio waves could provide a clue, Dwyer says: Cascades of electrons at the onset of a lightning strike should produce radio waves. The cosmic ray community has known that cosmic rays make radio waves, and when there are thunderstorms around, its been seen that you get more of these radio pulses, Dwyer says. But no one has yet closed the loop and really shown that the air showers going through a thunderclouds electric field making these runaway electrons are the things that are doing it. | ||||||||
| Fri, 05/03/2013 12:00 PM Killed | 35 dead up 40% | 0.0 | U | Cambodia |
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| PHNOM PENH, May 2 Lightning strikes had killed 35 people in Cambodia in the first four months of this year, up 40 percent compared with the 25 deaths over the same period last year, a disaster control official said Thursday. Besides the dead, lightning strikes injured 24 others during the January-April period this year, said Keo Vy, chief of the Cabinet of the National Committee for Disaster Management, adding that most victims lived in rural areas. Since mid-March this year, there have been strong rains with lightning and thunderstorms, he told Xinhua over telephone. Just one day on April 28, lightning bolts killed up to 8 people in different places. Meanwhile, he appealed to people to be more cautious to avoid dangers from lightning. People should stay in their houses when there are torrential rains with storms and lightning, he said. Cambodia has one of the highest rates in the world of deaths by lightning at 7.8 deaths per million people, he said, adding that last year, lightning bolts killed 103 Cambodians and injured 72 others. Lightning strike becomes more common in Cambodia, which occurs every year from March to November. | ||||||||
| Thu, 05/02/2013 12:00 PM Killed | Edgar | 0.0 | M | Pagadian city Zamboanga Del Sur Philippines |
fishing on a boat | Boat,fishing,Work | ||
| Filipino fishing boat hit by lightning, 1 dead Friday, May 03, 2013 12:47:46 AM A typical trawler in Zamboanga. (Mindanao Examiner Photo) PAGADIAN CITY (Mindanao Examiner / May 2, 2013) One fisherman was killed when lightning hit their trawler at sea off Zamboanga del Sur province in the southern Philippines, police said. It said the victim, who was only identified as Edgar, fell into the sea after being hit by the lightning. His body was never found despite efforts by the crew of the fishing boat Wingston. The boats operator, Reynaldo Torres and two others reported the incident to the police in Tabina town. Torres said the boats communication system and antenna were both damage by the lightning strike and this was also confirmed by the police during an inspection of the trawler. (Mindanao Examiner) | ||||||||
| Thu, 05/02/2013 12:00 PM Killed | Pfc. Jaymar Tumarong | 0.0 | M | Tungawan Zamboanga Del Sur Philippines |
standing guard | Military,Outside | ||
| Lightning kills army sentinel in South RP Friday, May 03, 2013 01:17:51 AM ZAMBOANGA DEL SUR (Mindanao Examiner / May 2, 2013) An army sentinel was killed and another wounded following a lightning strike on a military post in Tungawan town in Zamboanga del Sur province, police said. Police said Pfc. Jaymar Tumarong was killed while Pfc. Jemar Destrajo has been rushed to the hospital in the town of Ipil for medical treatment. Destrajo suffered burns in the body. It said the duo, members of the 6th Special Forces Battalion, was guarding their post when lightning hit them. (Mindanao Examiner) | ||||||||
| Wed, 05/01/2013 12:00 PM unknown | Thunderstorms Generate Mysterious 'Dark Lightning' | 0.0 | U | USA |
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| May 01, 2013 Have you ever heard of "dark lightning?" Few people outside the scientific community have, but it is something real that is actually quite powerful - and possibly dangerous. A group of scientists in Florida has been learning about this mysterious natural phenomenon: We all know what thunderstorms are, and how much havoc their violent winds, torrential rains and lightning strikes can cause. But over the past 10 years, scientists have learned of an even darker side to thunderstorms: they can generate powerful bursts of electromagnetic energy known as Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flashes, or TGFs. A few years back, a spacecraft started seeing these bursts of gamma rays coming up from the Earths atmosphere," said Joseph Dwyer. "It was very strange. The Earth is not supposed to make gamma rays. If you want to study gamma rays you usually look for places like black holes and supernovas. We figured out eventually that these gamma rays were coming from ordinary thunderstorms. Professor Joseph Dwyer and his colleagues at the Florida Institute of Technology have been researching so-called dark lightning for several years. Dwyer says that while the phenomenon is quite different from what we see flashing brightly in the sky during a thunderstorm, the two types of high-energy events can be produced by the same storms, but in different ways. Normal lightning is very hot," he said. "Its about five times as hot as the surface of the sun and because of that emits a lot of light. But, compared to the gamma ray energy scale, its downright cold. So normal lightning is not hot enough to make the kind of gamma rays weve been seeing and so we needed some other explanation. What we now think is going on is that a thunderstorm acts like a gigantic particle accelerator. Strong fields inside the thunderstorm accelerate electrons to almost the speed of light and then they make the gamma-rays. A tremendous amount of energy is released in dark lightning, yet its powerful discharge is silent, and almost completely invisible to the unaided eye. Scientists have been concerned that since these gamma-ray bursts can originate at the same altitudes where commercial aircraft fly, they could damage the planes and jeopardize the safety of airline passengers. But Dwyer points to a couple of factors that minimize those dangers. First of all, pilots do their best to stay away from thunderstorms," said Dwyer. "Thunderstorms are dangerous places; we all know that already, so no additional warning is needed. And the second piece of good news is dark lightning appears to be relatively rare, maybe one out of every thousand normal lightning flashes would be dark lightning. So combining those two, people should not be worrying about this. Dwyer notes that astronauts peering down from Earth-orbiting spacecraft have reported that these gamma-ray producing storms occur most often around the equatorial regions of the planet. Dwyer says that could be because storms in those areas tend to be taller, higher-altitude thunderstorms, so their gamma-rays are bursting closer to space - and more visibly to the astronauts - since theres less atmosphere for the light to pass through. Dwyer says that in general, any thunderstorm should be capable of generating dark lightning. He says he and his colleagues are still not certain whats happening inside a thunderstorm that makes one storm more likely than another to generate the gamma-ray discharges, so more research on dark lightning is needed. It would be very nice to have instruments that were specifically designed to measure what were interested in studying," he said. "Now, were talking about something thats happening right over our heads that could affect people, that may be relatively common and so it would be very interesting to learn more about this. The researchers say new data from special Earth-observing satellites will help them better understand dark lightning. And while studies of the phenomenon continue, Professor Dwyers research has found no evidence yet that the mysterious gamma-ray bursts in thunderstorms pose any direct threat to public health or the environment. | ||||||||
| Wed, 05/01/2013 12:00 PM Killed | Wehrle Robert | 52.0 | M | Chowwara Kerala India |
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| Thiruvananthapuram: A 52-year-old German national was struck dead by lightning while he was on a stroll at the beach at Chowwara near here, police said on Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Wehrle Robert from Regensburg, Germany, police said. He had arrived with his wife on April 21 for ayurvedic treatment at a resort at nearby Vizhinjam. According to local people, he fell down after being struck by lightning last evening. His wife was beside him at the time. He was rushed to a nearby hospital where was declared dead by doctors. The body was later shifted to a private hospital and the German Embassy officials were informed of the death, police said. PTI | ||||||||
| Wed, 05/01/2013 12:00 PM Injured | 19 injured | 0.0 | U | Chirang India |
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| 19 injured as lightning strikes Assam's Chirang district PTI May 1, 2013, 05.49PM IST Tags: Lightning| Chirang CHIRANG (ASSAM): At least 19 people were injured and several houses damaged on Wednesday as lightning struck Assam's Chirang district, officials said. Lightning struck several villages in Bengtol area, injuring at least 19 people, they said. Eight of the wounded have been admitted to Bongaigaon Civil Hospital and the rest to Bengtol public health centre. A number of houses were also damaged in the lightning, which was accompanied by torrential rainfall, they said. | ||||||||
| Tue, 04/30/2013 12:00 PM Killed | Lightning kills 2 in Oman storms | 0.0 | U | Oman |
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| Muscat: Two expatriates were killed in lightning strikes on Monday as thundershowers lashed vast areas of the Sultanate in a continuing wet weather spell that is entering a record-breaking second week. One of the deaths occurred in the oilfield region of Fahud near Ibri in Dhahirah governorate, while the other was reported at Saham along the Batinah coast. A third person, also an expatriate, is believed to have suffered serious burns in a similar lightning strike in the same area. The fatalities mark a day of torrential downpours that had the emergency and disaster relief apparatus of the Sultanate operating at full-stretch. The Public Authority for Civil Defence and Ambulances (PACDA) handled a total of 120 emergencies over the course of Monday and, for the first time, had to tackle a spate of fires linked to electrical short circuits. Since the onset of the current rainy spell on April 23, a total of 320 people have been rescued, mainly from flooded wadis or inundated homes, the Authority said in a statement to Oman News Agency (ONA). Dozens of people were evacuated to safety on Monday as flooding threatened homes in Samayil, Bahla, Ibri and Saham, among a host of other places. The capital city, Muscat, bore some of the brunt of Mondays intense downpour which, accompanied by gusting winds, brought traffic to a complete halt along key carriageways. Streets turned into rivers as motorists braved driving rain to get to their destination after work. Much of the city was buffeted by winds with speeds ranging from 25 to 40 knots when the skies opened up late in the evening, the Met Office said. More rain has been forecast across northern areas of the country over the next days as residents endure what experts have described as one of the longest spells of wet weather ever to hit Oman, outside of a tropical storm, in modern times. | ||||||||
| Mon, 04/29/2013 12:00 PM Injured | 3 at construction site ( 2 of 3) | 0.0 | M | Bee Cave TX USA |
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| Mon, 04/29/2013 12:00 PM Injured | construction worker (3 of 3) | 0.0 | M | Bee Cave TX USA |
construction site | Construction site,Ground Strike,Outside,Work | ||
| EMS: Three injured in lightning strike COMMENT(1) 9 39 84 240 By Julie Chang and Ciara O'Rourke American-Statesman Staff 6:44 p.m. update: All three people struck by lightning earlier Monday afternoon were in stable condition by the evening, said Austin-Travis County EMS spokesman Warren Hassinger. 5 p.m. update: Two construction workers and a food truck employee were injured Monday by a lightning strike near Bee Cave, officials said. Steve Wilkins, the project manager for the Cielo Apartment Homes complex on RM 620 near Falcon Head Boulevard, said the injured people were in or near the food truck, which was parked at the bottom of a hill. Wilkins said he did not see the incident but went to the scene shortly afterward and said the victims look stunned. All three were conscious, he said, with two standing and one on the ground. He said the storm was brief about five minutes but was very intense with lightning. He said all of the workers had gone through safety training, including for lightning storms, and that all of the workers took cover. I care about all my men, he said. We work on safety constantly. 4:15 p.m. update: The three construction workers taken to the hospital with lightning-strike injuries were at a taco truck at an apartment complex under construction when they were struck, according to Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services. Medics said their shoes and socks were blown off, the agency said. Earlier: Three workers were struck by lightning at a construction site at 3501 FM 620 South, according to Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services. Medics are taking two of the workers in critical condition to University Medical Center Brackenridge, the agency said. A third worker is being taken to the hospital separately with less severe injuries. EMS described the workers injuries on Twitter as burns to feet and singed hair. Travis County sheriffs office spokesman Roger Wade said the lightning strike was at an apartment complex under construction off Bee Cave Parkway, near the Galleria. This story has been updated to correct the location of the incident. | ||||||||
| Mon, 04/29/2013 12:00 PM Injured | van opreator | 0.0 | M | San Antonio TX USA |
leaving van | Indirect,Outside,Work | ||
| VIA Driver Struck by Lightning By: Fox S.A. Staff Authorities are confident lightning struck a VIA van operator during Monday night's storms. The driver had just finished his shift and parked his van back in the yard at 800 Myrtle when he was hit. The driver was taken to San Antonio Military Medical Center in stable condition. | ||||||||
| Mon, 04/29/2013 12:00 PM Injured | 3 at construction site ( 1 of 3) | 0.0 | M | Bee Cave TX USA |
construction site | Construction site,Ground Strike,Indirect,Outside,Work | ||
| Three workers were taken to Brackenridge Hospital Monday afternoon after being struck by lightning, according to Austin/Travis County EMS. TDI Construction Services is working on a Cielo Apartment complex at the location of the strike in Bee Cave. A supervisor at the site said the storm rolled through in about five minutes. They heard a loud boom and then heard over the radio three men were down. The strike injured two construction workers and a catering truck operator, who was the most seriously injured. The worksite is still operating. According to a tweet from Austin/Travis County EMS, the men had burns to their feet and singed hair. Two of the workers are in critical condition. | ||||||||
| Thu, 04/25/2013 03:00 PM Killed | Lightning kills mother of two | 40.0 | F | Tirappane Sri Lanka |
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| Lightning kills mother of two Gayan Rajapaksa A mother of two working in a paddy field in Tirappane with a group of farmers, died after being struck by lightning on Tuesday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Ramani Sanjeewani, 40, of Hidogama, Anuradhapura. The group had been working in the field during a heavy thunder shower. The woman who was thrown on the ground , was rushed to the Anuradhapura Hospital by neighbours and the Grama Niladhari of the area. She was pronounced dead on admission to hospital | ||||||||
| Thu, 04/25/2013 04:30 PM Injured | Mohd Ashraf Yusof | 17.0 | M | Gua Ular Bernama Malaysia |
Outside,Taking Shelter | |||
| BALING: A youth was hurt when he and five friends were struck by lightning in an incident in a cave at the foot of Gunung Pulai near Kampung Tok Bandar here this evening. Mohd Ashraf Yusof, 17, was injured on the head while the others experienced numbness all over their bodies in the incident at Gua Ular at 4.30pm. During the incident, the six youths - five including Ashraf of Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Syed Abu Bakar here - were taking shelter from a heavy thunderstorm. The other five victims were Mohd Bukhari Ramli, 17, (non-student) Mohd Azri Ahmad, 17, Mohd Amin Azman, 15, and Mohd Azam bin Md Nor, 16 and his brother Mohd Nizam, 13. "We were sitting on the ground when lightning struck and our bodies became numb. One of us made a call of the Azan (call to prayers). "We also immediately, helped Mohd Ashraf who was lying on the ground with his whole body shivering," Mohd Bukhari told reporters here today. At Press time, Mohd Ashraf was still receiving treatment at the Baling Hospital. -- BERNAMA Read more: Youth hurt in lightning strike - Latest - New Straits Times http://www.struckbylightning.org/news/sbl20132504124130_youth-hurt-in-lightning-strike-1.264385_localLinksEnabled_false.htm#ixzz | ||||||||
| Wed, 04/24/2013 10:00 AM Killed | Connnie Lou Wake | 54.0 | F | Pomona MO USA |
in yard | Outside,Yard | ||
| Missouri woman dies after being hit by lightning April 25 POMONA, Mo. A 54-year-old southwest Missouri woman is dead after apparently being struck by lightning. Order Reprints More News Missouri bill affecting KC school takeover stalls in deadlocked committee Former Grain Valley elementary school teacher sentenced for abusing his students Missouri anthem gets mixed review from lawmakers (video and poll) Missouri woman dies after being hit by lightning Prosecutors accuse 25-year-old man of trying to run over KC officer Read more News Howell County authorities say Connie Lou Wake died Wednesday. Authorities say Wake's son called the Howell County sheriff's office Wednesday morning to report he found his mother unresponsive in the front yard of her home east of Pomona. Pomona is about 100 miles east of Springfield. The Ozarkareanetwork reports that emergency responders found Wake dead when they arrived. The sheriff's office says no foul play is suspected. Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2013/04/25/4202050/missouri-woman-dies-after-being.html#storylink=cpy | ||||||||
| Tue, 04/23/2013 12:00 PM Killed | Lightning claims five lives | 0.0 | U | Kathmandu Nepal |
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| KATHMANDU, APR 22 - At least five persons died and more than 20 others were injured in separate incidents of lightning in various parts of the country in the past 24 hours. Tara Singh Malla and Ramkali Dangi died of an electric shock after a bolt of lightning struck an electricity pole at Ghanteshwor VDC in Doti on Saturday night, according to police. Fifteen others were injured in the incident. Dev Singh Mall told the Post over telephone that half a dozen cattle were perished in the tragedy. Similarly, our correspondent from Kailali said one Tika Devi Chaudhary died while her husband and son were injured after being struck by lightning at their residence in Bahuniya on Saturday night. The injured are undergoing treatment at a hospital in Tikapur, police said. In Nuwakot, 11-year-old Jasamaya Tamang died and two others were injured in a similar incident on Sunday. Lightning struck them while they were staying at their house. Likewise, lightning claimed the life of Lok Bahadur Limbu at Patigaun-5 in Morang on Saturday, said police. (With inputs from district correspondents) | ||||||||
| Tue, 04/23/2013 12:00 PM Killed | Lightening kills 11 in four districts | 0.0 | U | India |
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| RELATED VIJAYAWADA: At least 11 persons were struck dead by lightning in separate incidents in Prakasam, Guntur, Nellore and Krishna districts on Monday. The sudden and unseasonal rains for the third consecutive day in Krishna, Guntur, Prakasam, Nellore, Nalgonda and Visakhapatnam districts brought no respite to farmers. According to information reaching here, a woman working in the groundnut fields in Arepalle village of Cherukupalli mandal in Guntur district was killed due to lightning in the morning. The victim was identified as Peruboina Ademma, 45. Two more deaths were reported from Guntur district. Koteswaramma, 48, of Kollimarla village of Kakumanu mandal and Raghavamma, 50, of Varagani village in Pedanandipadu mandal were struck dead by lightning. The situation was particularly worse in Prakasam district with gales blowing at 100 kmph uprooting huge trees and electric poles in many villages in Purchur, Addanki, Inkollu, Pangulur mandals. Struck by lightning, four persons died. They were identified as Pallerla Anjamma, 60, of Krishnamrajupalle village of Korisapadu mandal, N Venkatesh, 35, of Kothakota mandal in Mahbubnagar, who came to Venkatapuram of Addanki mandal, B Singa Rao, 60, a shepherd of Kolalpudi village in Martur mandal and also a 30-year-old man in Srirampuram colony in Ongole town. In Nellore, three persons were killed due to lightning. One of them was identified as Sanjeeva Reddy of Perumudi village in Balayapalle mandal. While the other two were from Dwarakapuram in Naidupet mandal, and Jangaladharuvu village of Sangam mandal. A farmer, Dulapudi Siva Nancharaiah, 39, also met with similar death at Chagantipadu village of Thotlavallur mandal in Krishna district. Four others were injured in the incident. The victims were reportedly engaged in a borewell drilling when lightning struck. The sudden rains coupled with heavy gales left the locals panic-stricken in Darsi and Markapuram mandals. Sources said power supply was disrupted in 40 villages in Inkollu, Addanki and Purchur mandals. Heavy rains were also reported from Atchampet, Rompicherla, Vinukonda, Narasaraopet, Guntur and Nagaram areas in Guntur district. Heavy rain also lashed Gudivada and Nandigama mandals in Krishna district. Farmers were badly hit due to the sudden rain as almost all the crops were affected as the rains spread over all the areas in the coastal districts. While paddy and mango nurseries were damaged in Krishna district, cotton, chilli and pulses were damaged in Guntur and Prakasam districts. Share your views | ||||||||
| Mon, 04/22/2013 12:00 PM Killed | Lightning kills three in Jaipur | 0.0 | U | Jaipur Rajasthan India |
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| Three men were killed and four others got injured when lightning struck them at two different places, police said today. Iqbal (70) and Rakesh (26), an executive at a finance company executive, were standing near a water reservoir in Amber locality when lightning struck them yesterday, police said, adding three persons were also injured in the incident. In a similar incident, Mukesh Kumar died when he was hit by lightning at Naila road in Kanota area of the district. He along with his friend Rajesh had taken shelter under a tree when the incident occurred last night, the police said, adding, that Rajesh was injured in the incident. A few places in the state received rainfall due to Western Disturbance since yesterday. Mount Abu recorded a maximum of 19 mm rainfall till morning since yesterday whereas Ajmer, Chittorgarh, Jaipur and Dabok recorded 8, 7, 4. 3 and 3.3 mm rainfall, according to the MeT Department. The MeT Department has predicted more rainfall at a few places during the next 24 hours. Read More | ||||||||
| Sun, 04/21/2013 12:00 PM Killed | 3 killed, over 15 injured | 0.0 | U | Nepal |
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| Thunderbolt claims 3 lives, over 15 injured Three people died and fifteen others were injured in separate incidents of lightning strike in the country on Saturday night. In Kailali, Tika Devi Chaudhary, 26, of Bainiya-2 VDC, Mainapokhari died after lightning struck her house last night. Tika Devi, who had fallen unconsicuous after being struck by thunderbolt, died while receiving treatment at a local healthpost. Two other got injured in the incident. Police said the injured are Tika devis husband Jhosuram Chaudhary, 29, and their 13-year-old son Nirajan Chaudhary. In a similar incident in Doti, two people breathed their last after being struck by lightning following a heavy downpour in the district. The deceased have been identified as Tara Singh Malla, 60, and Ramkali Dangi, 55 both from Ghanteswor -3, Ghoradi of the district. Both of them died while being rushed to Dhangadi in an unconscious state for treatment. Likewise, more than 15 people from the same village as the deceased got injured in the incident. Nepalnews.comN | ||||||||
| Tue, 04/16/2013 12:00 PM unknown | Energy Education Council | 0.0 | U | IL USA |
bad safety info | Bad Safety info | ||
| Tips to Stay Safe when Lightning Strikes Posted: Apr 16, 2013 7:26 PM EDT An electricity expert said, don't be fooled by the blue skies. If you hear thunder, lightning is close enough to pose an immediate threat. Erin Hollinshead, the Assistant Director of Energy Education Council said, "The 30-30 rule would be after you see lightening or hear thunder count 30 seconds and if there's not another one that occurs in that 30 seconds, then it's safe to go back outdoors." Hollinshead added, lightning can strike ten miles ahead of the storm front. Just by looking up at the sky and not seeing clouds, that does not mean that you are in a safe location. To help keep you safe when bad weather heads to Central Illinois, she told WAND's Brigette Burnett a few tips. She said, do not seek shelter under trees, canopies, picnic or rain shelters. Never stand near light, power or flag poles or even other people. Stay away from computers, tv sets, take off headsets and stop playing video games. | ||||||||
| Mon, 04/15/2013 03:00 PM Killed | Six farmers die in Bone lightning strike | 0.0 | U | Jakarta |
taking shelter in hut | Ungrounded Shelter | ||
| Six farmers die in Bone lightning strike The Jakarta Post, Makassar | Archipelago | Mon, April 15 2013, 4:05 AM A- A A+ Six farmers were killed and three others injured when lightning struck their hut in Bone, South Sulawesi. Selli village chief Saharuddin said that the nine farmers took shelter in the hut after a rainstorm struck on Saturday afternoon when they were working in the field. According to the survivors, around 30 minutes later, they heard thunder and saw a lightning bolt strike the hut. Six farmers instantly collapsed, Saharuddin said. No wounds found on the dead bodies, while the hut was destroyed, Saharuddin said, adding that the bodies were later taken to the local puskesmas community health center for autopsies before burial in their hometowns on Sunday. Meanwhile, the three surviving farmers suffered minor injuries and have returned home after receiving treatment at the community health center | ||||||||
| Sun, 04/14/2013 04:00 PM Killed | Six farmers struck dead by lightning | 0.0 | U | Selli village SouthSulawesi Jakarta |
under a hut | Taking Shelter,Ungrounded Shelter | ||
| Andi Hajramurni, The Jakarta Post, Makassar | Archipelago | Sun, April 14 2013, 7:24 PM A- A A+ Six farmers were killed on Saturday evening after a shack they were sheltering themselves in was struck by a bolt of lightning. They were seeking shelter from the rain in the shack located in the middle of paddy fields in Liberung hamlet, Selli village, Bengo district, Bone regency, South Sulawesi. The six farmers were from two neighboring villages in Bengo district. The four farmers from Selli village have been identified as Baharuddin, 35; Kami, 25; Madiasseng, 43; and Masdar, 27, while the remaining two Appi, 25, and Ikhsan, 35 from Mattaropuli village. Apart from the six farmers, three other farmers became unconscious after being struck by lightning and were taken to Lappariaja community health center, Bone. After receiving intensive medical treatment, they recovered and were allowed to go home. Selli village head, Saharuddin, told The Jakarta Post that the six victims and four other farmers had been harvesting in the paddy fields when heavy rainfall and lightning began at around 4 p.m., local time, on Saturday. They then stopped harvesting and took shelter under a hut in the paddy fields. According to a farmer, a half hour after they took shelter in the hut, they heard loud thunder. They saw lightning go toward them and all of a sudden the six farmers fell to the ground, said Saharuddin. They were buried in their kampungs on Sunday. (asw/ebf) | ||||||||
| Thu, 04/11/2013 12:00 PM Injured | man | 0.0 | M | Chelsea MI USA |
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| BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. - As inconvenient as the road closure was along Halsted Road between 13 Mile and 14 Mile roads in Bloomfield Hills, it positively paled in comparison to what happened to a Washtenaw County man. The man was struck by lightning near Cassidy Lake and Waterloo roads in Chelsea. He's going to be OK. It has been a long, gray and dreary week in Metro Detroit. Moreover, it has been cold. It was round two of rain Thursday night. Dante Cochran was thinking positively, at least. He was wearing a parka, and a pair of shorts. Wishful thinking or bad planning? "I was looking forward to warm weather today. I'm a native to Michigan but I'm still not used to the weather," he joked. | ||||||||
| Thu, 04/11/2013 10:25 PM Injured | Edward Mooney | 0.0 | M | Valley Cottage NY USA |
closing window in house | Indirect,Indoors | ||
| Edward Mooney was struck by lightning when he tried to close a window in his living room. (April 11, 2013 10:25 PM) A Rockland man is lucky to be alive tonight after a lightning strike sent him flying inside his home. Edward Mooney, of Valley Cottage, says he and his wife, Lisa, were having dinner at their home yesterday when a thunderstorm hit. When Mooney tried to close a window in his living room, he was struck by lightning and flung six feet across the room. Mooney says the lightning also passed... Content Preview This content is exclusive for Optimum, Time Warner®, Comcast®, customers with acccess to News 12. | ||||||||
| Wed, 04/10/2013 12:00 PM Injured | person ( 4 of 4 ) | 0.0 | U | Swanton OH USA |
in garage working on truck | Garage with door open,Indirect | ||
| Wed, 04/10/2013 12:00 PM Injured | person (3 of 4 ) | 0.0 | U | Swanton OH USA |
in garage working on truck | Garage with door open,Indirect | ||
| Wed, 04/10/2013 12:00 PM Injured | person ( 2 of 4 ) | 0.0 | U | Swanton OH USA |
in garage working on truck | Garage with door open,Indirect | ||
| Person hospitalized after struck by lightning Posted: Apr 10, 2013 3:51 PM EDT Updated: Apr 10, 2013 9:44 PM EDT By Mackenzie Miller - email FULTON COUNTY, OH (Toledo News Now) - A local dispatch says a person was sent to the hospital after being struck by lightning. The incident happened in the 1700 block of County Road D in Fulton County, on the northern edge of the Maumee State Forest. According to a witness at the scene, four people were working on a truck in a garage when lightning struck the area around them. Three people were shocked and one man was severely injured. Lucas County dispatch says the man was transported to the hospital by Providence Township Life Squad. His condition is unknown at this time. Copyright 2013 Toledo News Now. All rights reserved | ||||||||
| Wed, 04/10/2013 12:00 PM Injured | person ( 2 of 4 ) | 0.0 | U | Swanton OH USA |
in garage working on truck | Garage with door open,Indirect | ||
| Person hospitalized after struck by lightning Posted: Apr 10, 2013 3:51 PM EDT Updated: Apr 10, 2013 9:44 PM EDT By Mackenzie Miller - email FULTON COUNTY, OH (Toledo News Now) - A local dispatch says a person was sent to the hospital after being struck by lightning. The incident happened in the 1700 block of County Road D in Fulton County, on the northern edge of the Maumee State Forest. According to a witness at the scene, four people were working on a truck in a garage when lightning struck the area around them. Three people were shocked and one man was severely injured. Lucas County dispatch says the man was transported to the hospital by Providence Township Life Squad. His condition is unknown at this time. Copyright 2013 Toledo News Now. All rights reserved | ||||||||
| Wed, 04/10/2013 12:00 PM Injured | person (1 of 4 ) | 0.0 | U | Swanton OH USA |
in garage working on truck | N/A | Garage with door open,Ground Strike,Indirect,Outside,Road | |
| Person struck by lightning during strong storms in Lucas County by Amulya Raghuveer Posted: 04.10.2013 at 4:31 PM Amulya Raghuveer Amulya is the Director of Digital Content and Community Relations at WNWO. read more » Friend Amulya Follow Amulya Contact Amulya Amulya's feed Read more: Local, Weather, News, Struck by Lightning, Person by Struck Lightning, Lucas County Dispatch, County Road D, Maumee State Park Share on favoritessavesendprint 0 0 SWANTON -- Strong storms brought heavy rain and thunder to the area Wednesday, sending one person to the hospital after being struck by lightning. According to Lucas County dispatch, the unidentified person was struck by a lightning rod on County Road D in Fulton County, near the Maumee State Forest. The area, just south of Swanton, was hit hard by heavy storms Wednesday afternoon. The person was sent to an area hospital. The extent of injuries has not been released. | ||||||||
| Wed, 04/10/2013 12:00 PM unknown | Radiation Bombards Plane Passengers Via 'Dark Ligh | 0.0 | U | FL USA |
N/A | Science | ||
| Radiation Bombards Plane Passengers Via 'Dark Lightning': How Dangerous Is It? 0 Comments inShare Print Email Matthew Klickstein First Posted: Apr 10, 2013 11:37 AM EDT TagsRadiation, Dark lightning, Planes, Gamma rays Lightning strikes near the space shuttle Endeavour resting atop launch pad 39A during thunderstorms at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, July 10, 2009. Credit:Reuters If you're ever flying in a plane through the clouds on a stormy night and wonder if those lightning bolts could feasibly endanger the flight, you've got something new to worry about. It turns out that, according to scientists, a certain invisible kind of lightning called "dark lightning" regularly hits plane passengers with gamma rays without their even knowing it. RELATED ARTICLES Inspiration Mars Mission To Use Human Feces As Radiation Shield New Radiation Shield Discovered And Destroyed 12,000 Miles Up Japan Government Names Radiation Physicist as New Atomic Regulator Head FCC May Take up Issue of Cell Phone Radiation "However," LiveScience adds, according to researchers, "these outbursts do not seem to reach truly dangerous levels." Like Us on Facebook More than 10 years ago, researchers discovered that "brief but powerful bursts of gamma rays" are produced by thunderstorms. These "terrestrial gamma-ray flashes" are the "highest-energy form of light," according to LiveScience, and can be so bright that they blind satellite sensors hundreds of miles from origin. The problem with all these fascinating facts is that the terrestrial gamma-ray flashes tend to occur at the same height that commercial airlines often fly. It has been difficult to determine whether or not the radiation from these gamma rays can have an adverse effect on passengers, as scientists still have little information on exactly what these gamma rays are all about. Scientists do believe that antimatter is "hurled" into space from these flashes. "We know in detail how black holes work at the centers of distant galaxies, but we don't really understand what is going on inside thunderclouds just a few miles over our heads," said Joseph Dwyer, a physicist at the Florida Institute of Technology. The provenance of these gamma ray flashes is referred to as "dark lightning" because although computers can be used to help detect this "extreme form of lightning," the blasts produce so little light it's hard to see them with the human eye. "I find it amazing that it took us two-and-a half centuries after Ben Franklin to find out that there is another kind of lightning inside thunderstorms," Dwyer told LiveScience. So, is this "amazing" dark lightning dangerous to passengers flying through the clouds when the gamma ray blasts are occurring? "Doses never seem to reach truly dangerous levels," Dwyer noted. "The radiation from dark lightning is not something that people need to be frightened about, and it is not a reason to avoid flying. I would have no problem getting on a plane with my kids." Along with colleagues Ningyu Liu and Hamid Rassoul, Dwyer detailed the team's findings at a conference of the European Geosciences Union in Vienna on Wednesday, April 10. Like what you're reading? Follow @profklickberg. 'Dark lightning' zaps airline passengers with radiation NASA An artist's impression of a terrestrial gamma-ray flash, called "dark lightning," originating from a thunderstorm. The gamma rays (pink), in turn, generate electrons and positrons (yellow and green), their antimatter counterparts, which get blasted into space. By Charles Choi LiveScience "Dark lightning" that is almost invisible within clouds may regularly blast airline passengers with large numbers of gamma rays, scientists find. However, these outbursts do not seem to reach truly dangerous levels, researchers added. More than a decade ago, researchers unexpectedly discovered thunderstorms could generate brief but powerful bursts of gamma rays, the highest-energy form of light. These so-called terrestrial gamma-ray flashes are so bright that they are able to blind sensors on satellites many hundreds of miles away. Advertise | AdChoices Worryingly, terrestrial gamma-ray flashes can occur near the same altitudes at which commercial aircraft regularly fly. Attempts to discover whether these flashes pose a radiation hazard to airline passengers have been hampered by a poor understanding of the cause of these flashes. Past research has also found these flashes hurl beams of antimatter into space. [The 5 Real Hazards of Air Travel] "We know in detail how black holes work at the centers of distant galaxies, but we don't really understand what is going on inside thunderclouds just a few miles over our heads," said researcher Joseph Dwyer, a physicist at the Florida Institute of Technology. Extreme lightning Now computer models suggest the flashes are caused by an extreme form of lightning. Although they may blast out large numbers of gamma rays, they generate very little visible light, leading scientists to call the phenomenon "dark lightning." "I find it amazing that it took us two-and-a half centuries after Ben Franklin to find out that there is another kind of lightning inside thunderstorms," Dwyer told LiveScience. Normal lightning involves slow electrons that carry electric current to the ground or within clouds. In contrast, dark lightning involves high-energy electrons. These electrons slam into air molecules, producing gamma rays. In turn, these gamma rays generate electrons and their antimatter counterparts, known as positrons. These high-energy particles collide into still more air molecules, generating more gamma rays, ultimately explaining many of the properties of the gamma-ray flashes that scientists have detected from thunderstorms. Ordinary lightning arcs from one spot to another to reduce the voltage growing within clouds. Dark lightning does so as well, and since much higher energy particles are involved, it reduces voltage far more quickly, so the electric fields within them "can collapse in a few tens of microseconds," Dwyer said. Dark lightning and radiation Armed with a model that potentially explains these gamma-ray flashes, Dwyer and his colleagues analyzed how much radiation airline passengers might receive from them. Near the tops of thunderstorms, at about 40,000 feet (12,200 meters) in altitude, the scientists calculated that radiation doses are comparable to about 10 chest X-rays, or about the same dose people receive from natural background sources of radiation over the course of a year. [Infographic: Earth's Atmosphere Top to Bottom] Advertise | AdChoices However, near the middle of the storms, at about 16,000 feet (4,900 meters) in altitude, "the radiation dose could be about 10 times larger, comparable to some of the largest doses received during medical procedures and roughly equal to a full-body CT scan," Dwyer said. Although airline pilots already do their best to avoid thunderstorms, "occasionally aircraft do end up inside electrified storms, exposing passengers to terrestrial gamma-ray flashes," Dwyer said. "On rare occasions, according to the model calculations, it may be possible that hundreds of people, without knowing it, may be simultaneously receiving a sizable dose of radiation from dark lightning." The average cruising altitude of a passenger jet ranges from about 30,000 to 40,000 feet (9,150 to 12,200 m). This means that commercial airliners may pass through the potentially dangerous altitude of 16,000 feet (4,900 m) twice per flight. Still, Dwyer noted the radiation risk posed by these flashes is minimal. Pilots already avoid thunderstorms. In addition, the flashes behind the biggest doses of radiation are probably much less common than normal lightning. Moreover, the plane would have to be in exactly the wrong place at the wrong time to see such high doses. "Doses never seem to reach truly dangerous levels," Dwyer noted. "The radiation from dark lightning is not something that people need to be frightened about, and it is not a reason to avoid flying. I would have no problem getting on a plane with my kids." Dwyer and his colleagues Ningyu Liu and Hamid Rassoul detailed their findings Wednesday at a meeting of the European Geosciences Union in Vienna. | ||||||||
| Wed, 04/10/2013 12:02 AM Injured | vendor | 0.0 | U | Cassidy Lake MI USA |
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| lightning at Chelsea-area boot camp By Kyle Feldscher Crime and courts reporter Comment Now Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on email Share on print More Sharing Services 0 Posted on Wed, Apr 10, 2013 : 1:22 p.m. One person was struck by lightning at the Cassidy Lake Special Alternative Incarceration Facility Wednesday afternoon as thunderstorms rolled through Washtenaw County. Huron Valley Ambulance spokeswoman Joyce Williams said one person was struck by lightning while at the boot camp, 18901 Waterloo Road in Lyndon Township, northwest of Chelsea. Emergency medical personnel were dispatched to the camp at 12:02 p.m. Officials at Cassidy Lake said the person was a vendor, not a staff member or an inmate. The vendor was taken to the hospital for precautionary purposes, according to the official. Williams said the person was taken to Chelsea Hospital in stable condition. The facility is meant for prisoners and probationers as an alternative to prison and has been in operation since 1988. Inmates are usually at the facility for 90 days before being released to probation or a halfway house | ||||||||
| Tue, 04/09/2013 01:40 PM unknown | man inside front end loader | 0.0 | F | Brownsville WI USA |
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| 2 Struck by Lightning in Dodge Co. Posted Tuesday, April 9, 2013 --- 2:52 p.m. Press Release from the Dodge Co. Sheriff's Department: The Dodge County Sheriffâ¬"s Department reports two individuals were struck by lightning at 1:39 p.m. on April 9, 2013, while working on Lomira Dr., in Brownsville, WI. One male subject was transported by Mayville EMS to Froedert Hospital for injuries sustained by the lightning strike. It is unknown at this time the extent of his injuries. The other male subject, who was inside machinery at the time, did not sustain any injuries. Brownsville First Responders, Fond du Lac Paramedics and Dodge County Sheriffâ¬"s Department assisted. Sheriff Ninmann states with the upcoming storm season you should be aware of the possible sudden change in weather and the possibility of lightning that could result from the storm. | ||||||||
| Tue, 04/09/2013 01:40 PM Injured | man outside front end loader (1 of 2) | 0.0 | M | Brownsville WI USA |
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| Two men struck by lightning near Brownsville Apr 9, 2013 | 0 Comments A A Written by The Reporter Media staff FILED UNDER Local News BROWNSVILLE Two men working in Brownsville Tuesday afternoon were struck by lightning from a thunderstorm that moved through the area. Emergency personnel were called to Lomira Drive at 1:40 p.m., according to the Dodge County Sheriffs Department. The men were working on a front-end loader when the lightning struck, said Dodge County Sheriff Patricia Ninmann. One man was inside the equipment and the other was outside when the lightning struck. The man standing outside the front-end loader was transported by Mayville EMS to Froedert Hospital with undisclosed injuries. The male inside the machinery did not sustain any injuries. Brownsville First Responders, Fond du Lac Paramedics and Dodge County Sheriffs Department assisted. Ninmann urged individuals to be aware of sudden changes in weather and the dangers of lightning. Text Size:AAA Man struck by lightning says bolt seared through him MILWAUKEE In a WISN 12 News exclusive, a Fond du Lac man recalls the force of being struck by lightning during Tuesday's stormy weather. TWO MEN STRUCK BY LIGHTNING IN DODGE COUNTY Two men are struck by lightning in Brownsville in Dodge County. MORE Hermilio Antonio-Angel was on the job at Halquist Stone in Brownsville on Tuesday afternoon when his first clue of trouble was the sound of a huge rock falling. He said the bolt seared through him, injuring his neck, his entire right side and shooting through his foot like an explosion. Antonio-Angel is being treated at Columbia St. Mary's Regional Burn Center in Milwaukee. He credited his family, faith in God and emergency workers for his recovery. Read more: http://www.wisn.com/news/south-east-wisconsin/ozaukee-washington/Man-struck-by-lightning-says-bolt-seared-through-him/-/10151118/19735374/-/w8wpbg/-/index.html#ixzz2QOO0hFaC | ||||||||
| Sat, 04/06/2013 12:00 PM Killed | Lightning deadliest natural disaster 129 killed l | 0.0 | U | Kathmandu Napal |
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| Lightning deadliest natural disaster 129 killed last year MoHA yet to come up with an awareness safety programme on lightning Added At: 2013-04-06 10:19 PM Last Updated At: 2013-04-06 10:19 PM RUDRA PANGENI KATHMANDU: Eleven people were killed after lightning struck them on one single day, on March 21, in different districts and 33 more had sustained serious electrical injuries around the country. Usually, the number of people killed by lightning increases in the months between March and June, especially before the onset of monsoon in the country. Over 129 people have lost their lives in the past one year, the number being at the top of the chart of deaths by natural disasters and the year before that, lightning had claimed 103 lives, the third highest on the chart. By contrast, the total number of deaths in floods were 126 and those killed in landslides stands at 113 in the year 2011-12. Shriram Sharma, an expert on lightning and lecturer of Physics at the Amrit Science Campus, suggests that people should prefer to stay in indoors during thunderstorm or take shelter under large trees or in an open ground. He said when lightning strikes any human being it causes internal burns and cardiovascular arrest. But the government or for that matter, any other organisation are least bothered about the alarming rate of deaths, said Sharma. Government has so far done nothing to mitigate the human and property loss by raising safety awareness. People are killed due to lack of awareness, he regretted. The Ministry of Home Affairs pays Rs 40,000 as relief to the family of the person killed in lightning, but that is not enough. It should take necessary steps to save peoples lives, said Sharma. Various programmes are organised annually to raise awareness and cope with natural disasters like earthquakes, floods and landslides. Government needs to mull over organising similar programmes to reduce the number of deaths by lightning, he added. Laxmi Prasad Dhakal, Joint Secretary at the MoHA, said the government is studying the seriousness of the disaster and programmes will be set thereafter. Interestingly while tsunami that has not been relevant in Nepals context, is included in the social studies textbooks for Grade VIII and X, but lightning has not mentioned in textbooks. The archeological structures in Patan, Bhaktapur and Basantapur Durbar Square are highly vulnerable to lightning as the structures have nothing to pass the electrical charge. Safety tips " Remain away from tall trees, electrical poles during thunderstorm " If you are in an open ground, rush indoor or walk bending your body " Remain at the centre of the room and do not touch walls and pillars in concrete houses " Switch-off electrical appliances " Do not use telephone during lightning | ||||||||