Whether you were personally struck, your horse was struck out in the field, your neighbor or friend got hit, electrical outage?..

  • RBWells@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    I live where there is a lot of lightning (west central FL) so have had near misses where the flash and sound came at the same time but the incident I remember:

    I worked at a payroll company. One of our new clients was a landscaping company and in the first week they had an employee hit by lightning, and that one incident was more expensive to the workers’ comp plan than the rest of the year combined, all companies. Poor guy died and not fast, it was heartbreaking. I also learned in that job that seawall building and underwater welding were our most risky clients (highest workers’ comp cost) followed closely by racecar drivers.

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      9 hours ago

      Tonight, like right now, we’re having numerous lightning strikes, but practically no thunder, and barely any rain. Upper atmosphere lightning maybe? 🤔

      This is only the third time in my life I’ve seen such a weird weather pattern, seems to come along with towns nearby having tornadoes… 🤷

      Southeast Mississippi here… Weird weather like now.