News Forum - Lightning bolt strikes during trio’s rain-soaked football match

[Thaiger]

Three young men, overcome by daring, braved adverse weather to play football, only to face an unexpected lightning strike. The incident took place amidst harsh rains yesterday. A TikTok user shared a post featuring the reckless behaviour of the trio, casually playing amidst a severe rainstorm. Despite the intense rainfall, they continued to enjoy their … …

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[Karolyn]

I unsure how dangerous lightning really is, because I lived in Amazonia when I had better health. And there, depending on season, thunderstorms with lightning are so regular, they're unavoidable in daily life.

At first I was shocked the locals, did not heed the lightning, and stay under cover, like Brits are told to as children - they just walk outdoors and ignore it. And so did I, realising the English fear of lightning, is argued to be an old Germanic taboo, and actual strikes are rare. And most of those are neither disfiguring, not lethal.

Then one day in Iquitos, the lightning struck right next to the mototaxi, as we called tuk tuks. We weren't hit and we were all unharmed, but there was a wierd feeling afterwards. You can't really explain it. My friend the driver, had experienced it before. He just drove through it.

[Havana]

The safest place to if lightening strikes is in a Faraday cage (allegedly).

[Marble-eye]

I take no chances, I wear Wellington boots at all times and I live my life with the motto is insulation is better than disintegration. 

[Wackamole]

11 hours ago, Karolyn said:

I unsure how dangerous lightning really is, because I lived in Amazonia when I had better health. And there, depending on season, thunderstorms with lightning are so regular, they're unavoidable in daily life.

At first I was shocked the locals, did not heed the lightning, and stay under cover, like Brits are told to as children - they just walk outdoors and ignore it. And so did I, realising the English fear of lightning, is argued to be an old Germanic taboo, and actual strikes are rare. And most of those are neither disfiguring, not lethal.

Then one day in Iquitos, the lightning struck right next to the mototaxi, as we called tuk tuks. We weren't hit and we were all unharmed, but there was a wierd feeling afterwards. You can't really explain it. My friend the driver, had experienced it before. He just drove through it.

it really is dangerous and there are many deaths from it in Thailand

[Karolyn]

6 minutes ago, Wackamole said:

it really is dangerous and there are many deaths from it in Thailand

Yet in la selva, people really do ignore it, and I never heard of a fatal strike. I doubt lightning is safer there than in Asia. 

[TWS60]

I've never been hit by lighting.  I don't know anyone who has been.  Despite no personal experience or direct observation, I'm generally aware  that being hit by lighting is something to avoid if you can, so when I see it kicking off in my area, I'll suspend outdoor activities until it passes through.  Not nanny state paranoid, just mindful. 

I've never been hit by a falling coconut either, but after moving to a country with lots of coconut palm trees, and stumbled across some random trivia stats about falling coconuts hitting people with sometimes fatal results, I make an effort to avoid sitting below or in the immediate vicinity of palms with coconuts above my head.   Not paranoid, just mindful.

[Smiler]

I was in my bedroom in Wales watching a terrific thunderstorm through the window my legs were pressed against a radiator suddenly there was a loud bang and a blinding light and I was thrown across the room landing luckily on my bed. I didn’t realise what had happened at first but apart from a bright red mark across my thighs I was unharmed, the next day I noticed a large hole in my roof where the lightening had struck, the charge must have traveled through the pipes and into the radiator, it was quite an experience and consider myself lucky. 

[Wackamole]

10 hours ago, Karolyn said:

.. , people really do ignore it, ..

Ignorance is bliss!

Seriously have you never seen the state of a tree after getting hit? Or horses/cows?

Dozens of people are killed every year in Thailand alone.

 

[TheDirtyDurian]

Got a house upcountry in the village that we visit sometimes. Fairly open land. Over the 20 odd years been going there have seen all the stand alone coconut trees struck by lightning. 

All the trees died and wood is stronger than me.