So it got me a little curious and I looked up some crazy facts about lightning...
*The odds of becoming a lightning victim in the U.S. in any one year is 1 in 700,000. The odds of being struck in your lifetime is 1 in 3,000.
*There are an estimated 25 million lightning flashes in the United States each year.
*During the past 30 years, lightning has killed an average of 66 people per year.
*The primary cause of death from lighting is cardiac arrest.
*Lightning kills more people per year than tornadoes.
I love thunderstorms but lightning scares the crap out of me!!! :)
2 comments:
I love to watch the lightning from our back porch. We must live in some weird weather vortex because all the storms go around our house, and don't ever hit us. Makes for the perfect storm watching spot. But thanks for scaring me about lightning you jerk! That really is crazy, I don't think many people know that.
I love the rain gent, but not the lightning, My friend kerrian, her aunt and uncle got struck up in the mountains about 4 years ago they were with their kids and they were sitting on metal chairs by a tree, they both died and their kids all lived. Sad huh
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