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Originally Posted by Sal
Today's lightning . . . and paucity of boats on the water, got me wondering whether anyone has been injured (or worse) by a lightning strike, in a boat, on the water, in recent memory. I've done a little looking around (poor job) and have found nada. Can any of you come up with REAL information?  |
Quick Google search turned up dozens—
just this year! 
https://www.google.com/search?source....0.STc0u1SiscM
A thunderstorm had passed by 20 minutes earlier, when a "bolt out of the blue" hit a small paper-birch tree just 25 feet from my laptop and me on a chair. The bolt sliced through one side of the tree, leaving different sizes of birch bark ringlets hanging on every surrounding branch.
As it turned out, I wasn't fazed, as there was a monster hemlock between me and the birch; however, this is the second time lightning has struck within 25 feet of me.
'Think I'll take up some
indoor interests!
.