I had lightning on the brain thanks to an amazing photo of a strike on crazy4coen's post on her blog, Raising Sunny
... and then I ran across this in my local paper today:
Lightning Bolt Kills 15 Huddled Cattle In Lithia, Florida
It is a belittlingly apt reminder of the awesome power of nature.
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Oh my gosh! I thought it was clumps of snow at first... but it was cows!
The still look pretty rare.
Now I've got this stuck in my head: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuLgfePrids
Ananda Girl: It was a sad sight on the front page of my paper this morning. I wondered why they didn't just use them for meat, but then I thought about the effects of the lightning. Not exactly a cut of meat I'd like to put on my grill tomorrow. RIP Elsie.
Jen: Now you've got me thinking of the Electric Company with Morgan Freeman as Easy Reader & Rita Moreno, et al, ... see what you've started ;-)
Wow.
Hey, does something smell good? ;)
Just a reminder that we are puny in comparison to the earth.
As far as the meat, elctrical shock actually singes the flesh it travels through.
The last time I was in Florida, I drove from Orlando to the Terror Coast (you know, the area where the 9/11 pilots trained and they had the Anthrax scare stuff going on). The whole time it was a cloudburst and lightning every few seconds. I'd never seen anything light that before or since. A lot of lightning in Florida.
First of all - thanks for the mention :)
Second of all - WOW! Why doesn't that happen to people? (I guess we don't huddle around next to each other, exposed in fields, in lightning storms.)
Thirdly - WOW!
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