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Friday, June 19, 2009

Killer Lightning



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.

7 comments:

  1. Oh my gosh! I thought it was clumps of snow at first... but it was cows!

    The still look pretty rare.

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  2. Now I've got this stuck in my head: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuLgfePrids

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  3. 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 ;-)

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  4. Wow.

    Hey, does something smell good? ;)

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  5. 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.

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  6. 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.

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  7. 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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