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Kario In Possession of a Stolen Shovel Level: 65 Posts: 1920/2082 EXP: 2321379 For next: 14249 Since: 03-15-04 From: Texas... Yeehaw! Since last post: 2 days Last activity: 17 hours |
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I was hanging out at a friends house last night and it was raining. I was in the front yard walking towards my car, and then lightning struck, about 3 feet in front of me. Sorry that wasnt much of a story. |
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Cornellius Buster Beetle Level: 33 Posts: 330/460 EXP: 224182 For next: 4997 Since: 06-04-04 From: Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada Since last post: 3 days Last activity: 10 hours |
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Happened to me too with my sister at the beginning of July. We wanted to go in the pool. We looked at each other: "Looks like it stopped, we can go swin" BAMMM ! It was all white for a secondand it was real loud. I looked at my sister and said: "You know, think I'll wait for tomorrow." (edited by Cornellius on 07-26-05 05:58 PM) |
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KATW King Yoshi "If you stare at something long enough, it can be funny." Level: 86 Posts: 3243/3959 EXP: 6087979 For next: 54128 Since: 03-15-04 Since last post: 7 hours Last activity: 5 hours |
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You wouldnt necessairly have died from that lightning strike... Anyways, this one time, I was at a family reunion in Ohio, and this big thunderstorm blew up... lightning kept striking all around the house Kinda creepy, and really loud... |
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Snika Boo Level: 44 Posts: 254/916 EXP: 600678 For next: 10607 Since: 07-21-04 From: Freezing Cold Alaska! Since last post: 2 days Last activity: 2 days |
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This brings a new meaning to the phrase 'life flashing before your eyes.' I'm glad it didn't hit you! =P Snika |
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BMF98567 BLACK HAS BUILT A SILLY DICE-MAZE! GO! Current list of BURNING FURY >8( recipients: - Yiffy Kitten (x2) - Xkeeper Level: 53 Posts: 1007/1261 EXP: 1094149 For next: 62970 Since: 03-15-04 From: Blobaria Special Move: Rising Meatloaf Backhand Combo Since last post: 21 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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I seem to remember staring out an open door during a rainstorm at my old elementary school, a loooooooooong time ago, and seeing a bright white flash hit the ground mere feet in front of me. Didn't seem like a big deal at the time, though... | |||
Dark Vampriel Lynel "Life is just a dream on the way to death." Level: 57 Posts: 1345/1658 EXP: 1400355 For next: 85573 Since: 08-29-04 From: Somewhere..... Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 4 min. |
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I remember during last year when me and the JROTC took a trip to this place to held pull weeds and stuff. It's called the Nigerian Wetlands in Illinios that we went to and a storm came while we were outside and while we took shelter in a barn there was a strike of lightening that struck the ground about twenty feet away. Also when one of my classmates stuck her hand outside while it was going on, she proclaimed that she almost got struck by lightening. | |||
NSNick Laidback Admin Level: 85 Posts: 3062/3875 EXP: 5895841 For next: 2699 Since: 03-15-04 From: North Side School: OSU Since last post: 9 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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Originally posted by Kario Shit, I missed. |
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windwaker Ball and Chain Trooper WHY ALL THE MAYONNAISE HATE Level: 61 Posts: 1733/1797 EXP: 1860597 For next: 15999 Since: 03-15-04 Since last post: 4 days Last activity: 6 days |
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Almost. Also, I would doubt the validity of this. It had to strike something, and something high up. If this did happen, which I doubt, it had to hit something, therefore you didn't almost die. If that something wasn't there, you were probably safe. |
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Prier Archangel Administrative Priestess. NUCLEAR SUB WEEEOOOO Level: 119 Posts: 6828/8392 EXP: 18790939 For next: 138352 Since: 03-15-04 From: Nerima Dist. - Tokyo, Japan Since last post: 1 day Last activity: 1 day |
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Originally posted by NSNickOriginally posted by Kario Nope, that was my bad. We had some pretty close strikes today...one that was loud enough to wake my sister up who sleeps through chainsaw going off. Never been exceedingly close or outside during a lightning storm though. |
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Keikonium Banned Level: NAN Posts: 1992/-2459 EXP: NAN For next: 0 Since: 04-02-04 Since last post: 63 days Last activity: 9 hours |
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Originally posted by windwaker It can happen by just hitting the ground. My girlfriends dad told me a story during a thunder storm a few days ago. He was in Ottawa in a parking lot during a very severe thunderstorm. There was a UPS type person (delivery person) walking up to a house. He knocked on the door, stepped back, and waited. The person had come to the door just as lightning hit the UPS guy. She opened the door to a dead man on her doorstep. Talk about scary. My moms brother also got hit by lightning in a feild in Germany. It just shocked him more than anything. He survived the hit. Glad you are safe tho Kario. |
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HyperLamer <||bass> and this was the soloution i thought of that was guarinteed to piss off the greatest amount of people Sesshomaru Tamaranian Level: 118 Posts: 6077/8210 EXP: 18171887 For next: 211027 Since: 03-15-04 From: Canada, w00t! LOL FAD Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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I almost died last week. Also, I once saw lightning hit my driveway. Quite spooky. |
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Cruel Justice XD Level: 55 Posts: 1012/1384 EXP: 1253266 For next: 60923 Since: 03-20-04 From: Darkwoods Penetentiary Since last post: 11 hours Last activity: 7 hours |
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Most lightening comes from the ground... just be careful not to be standing next to a telephone pole or something... | |||
Danielle Local Moderator Level: 76 Posts: 1154/3359 EXP: 3958078 For next: 47982 Since: 09-15-04 From: RATE Since last post: 3 hours Last activity: 3 hours |
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Thought I've never been nearly hit with one, I can think of one lightning storm I've been in. When I went on vacation to the east coast a few summers ago, there were serious thunder and lightning storms pretty much the whole time I was there.. they were much worse than anything I get here at home in CA. I could see it very very close to my relatives' house I was staying in, maybe a couple hundred yards away, but it never got closer. |
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Colleen Administrator Level: 136 Posts: 9525/11302 EXP: 29369328 For next: 727587 Since: 03-15-04 From: LaSalle, Quebec, Canada Since last post: 3 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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I've seen lightning hit within the general vicinity but never "close" to me. We don't get many serious storms to begin with. | |||
Apophis Red Super Koopa Level: 45 Posts: 643/882 EXP: 640255 For next: 19909 Since: 03-15-04 Since last post: 15 hours Last activity: 15 hours |
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i assume that it was lightning but no rain. otherwise, if lightning stuck three feet from you, the water on the ground would have conducted it and electrocuted you. | |||
UnsurpassedDarkness Melon Bug Level: 39 Posts: 646/746 EXP: 391555 For next: 13216 Since: 10-29-04 From: Λtlantıs. All your base are belong to us. Since last post: 12 days Last activity: 2 days |
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Originally posted by BMF54123Did an impression of your face get burnt into the window? I heard that |
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Scatterheart Panser Level: 29 Posts: 254/342 EXP: 143409 For next: 4476 Since: 06-06-04 From: Sydney, Australia Since last post: 17 hours Last activity: 4 hours |
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Hmm... Can a golf ball kill you? Once, our P.E class was playing golf with plastic golf balls, but someone brought a real one in. Anyway! Everyone was standing way back and watching my friend take a swing at it. So he hit it good! The ball went up, and it looked like it would go nowhere near me...but it just started curving, and curving. I couldn't react really... But right at the last second, I bent my knees and kinda fell back, but without falling... Some Matrix thing I was told, lol. I felt the ball hit the fringe of my hair, and when I got back up, everyone was calling me "The Matrix Guy". I was popular for a while! People were high-fivin' me and everything! That's not even big in Australia. My friend who hit the ball came runnin' over, and was so0o0 scared! He thought I was gonna hit him, and he kept apologizing... Not like it was his fault really, and there was no harm done. |
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alte Hexe Star Mario I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night Alive as you and me "But Joe you're ten years dead!" "I never died" said he "I never died!" said he Level: 99 Posts: 4800/5458 EXP: 9854489 For next: 145511 Since: 03-15-04 From: ... Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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I almost choked to death at work. I was mopping, eating a burger. Slipped a bit. Piece of food got stuck in my throat. Fortunately for you all, I have had this happen to me before. I just had to ram my stomach against the corner of a table to adminster a sort of "auto-Heimlech" and I can control the muscles in my neck really well (being a wrestler in my weight division...Well, when you have a lot of weight going down on your neck...you get used to that kind of stuff and learn from it) I managed to dislodge the piece of food. | |||
LizardKing ..of The Carnival Creation Armet 87/94 Level: 38 Posts: 519/596 EXP: 355646 For next: 14801 Since: 03-15-04 From: Norway Since last post: 4 days Last activity: 13 hours |
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Originally posted by Verminous Skumm That happened to me once. Well, I didn't get electrocuted, but a small part of it went through my foot, and it had just rained, so the grass was all wet. It wasn't really close though, maybe 200 m away or something. (I suck at telling distances.) And the strange is that it struck on a football (soccer) field, so it was as flat as it could be. (I wasn't on the football field where it struck, but there were some kids there playing.) Heh, and this is at least the third time I'm mentioning this. |
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alte Hexe Star Mario I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night Alive as you and me "But Joe you're ten years dead!" "I never died" said he "I never died!" said he Level: 99 Posts: 4806/5458 EXP: 9854489 For next: 145511 Since: 03-15-04 From: ... Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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"There is so many unknowns about lightning bolts...Due to the intense heat, I have to ask...Are the particles of silicon on your skin glass? Because you know, the interior of a lightning bolt is that hot, and when it strikes, it has a two foot radius of heat. So you know where they've struck." My friend Tim reading this thread. |
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