A 13-year-old boy was struck by lightning at 13:13 hours on Friday the 13th.
The boy was watching an air show in Lowestoft, England, when he was struck by lightning. An ambulance team treated the boy for minor burns to his shoulder and took him to the hospital as a precaution. The boy is expected to recover fully.
From this day forward, 13 will be this boy’s lucky number.
This is a time-stamped video slowed down 300X showing a massive lightning bolt grow, strike and die.
Erdem submitted some amazing lightning photos to CNN’s iReport. Here’s what he had to say about them:
“We had an awesome lightning storm in New York City last night. I took these photos from our window on the corner of 58th Street and First Avenue, 12th Floor. In the photo with the big lightning bolt, the building with the lit top is Bloomberg Building. Right behind that is the Trump Building (old GM Building) then Time Warner Building (CNN).”
After a melodramatic introduction with ominous music, this video gets down to business with a series of impressive lightning strikes. Warning: Language. Apparently the most common expression after a close lightning strike is “Holy S***!”
A 45-year-old Lawrence, Kansas man was struck and killed by lightning as he was riding his motorcycle on U.S. Highway 24. The man was riding with six other motorcyclists who are members of the Bikers Against Child Abuse group. A man riding next to the victim was also injured, but was treated and released from a Topeka hospital. The other five members of the group were not injured.
The bikers were returning home after visiting some children they had helped in the past in their work against child abuse. The local sheriff called the man’s death a “tragic, sad thing.”
You can see the cloud send out little lightning feeder lines to find the quickest path to the ground. Once the path is found, the main lightning bolt streaks to the ground.
We’ve heard of flame-grilled burgers, but usually not while the cow is still alive.
A cow in England was struck by lightning and left with blistering burns. Normally it would have been cooked alive and killed. But somehow the cow miraculously survived and is already back roaming the meadows.
Professor of Physical Geography, Jon Nott of James Cook University, said the event was rare but feasible. “Cows are susceptible to lightning strikes because both sets of legs are on the ground,” Nott said. “But, more often than not, they die from it. The electricity from a lightning strike would enter the front set of legs and exit out the back legs so, based on the picture, it is possible it happened.”
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