What's the record for being struck by lightning and surviving?
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All I know is once gets you on the podium.
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If you are in a boat on a lake during a lightning storm and the lightning hits you or your boat - no matter what it's made of - you will most likely die.\n\nDo not go in a boat on a lake during a lightning storm.
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There is a great article to read on this, from How Stuff Works.  Its under "How Lightning Works", but it talks about both lightning and thunder.  My students got a lot out of it.
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being struck by lighning is a myth in what it says.  you are not actually struck by the lightning but are the conducting rod for the electricity to flow from the earth into the sky to return as a bolt that we see.  \n\nwhat makes you or anyone a target is your location, metals around you and what objects are near by.  to be the highest point around....as in alone in middle of golf course....you are the high point....electricity in the ground will flow to you naturally to launch upward as it will seek the shortest distance.
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It is difficult to say with any degree of certainty due to the way deaths are reported in differ ant countries. In the U S only 14 were killed in 2005. World wide, it is estimated to be about 300. It is interesting to note that about ten times as many people are killed world wide by falling Coconuts as by lightning.
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I have heard that before too, but as a meteorologist...I can say I have never found any scientific basis for that theory.\n\nHowever, I was working for the National Weather Service about 20 years ago when I got struck.  After I returned to work, all the staff gave me a hard time about that fact that now that I had been struck once, I was more likely to be struck again.\n\nAfter my stint with NWS, I was a storm chaser for 10 years, and in those 10 years I never even came close.  In fact, in the last 20 years I have come close only once...and that was because I was stupid enough to be standing next to an outside light fixture as a thunderstorm was moving through.
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Try http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/content_pages/record.asp?recordid=45405
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Lightning is a powerful natural electrostatic discharge produced during a thunderstorm. This abrupt electric discharge is accompanied by the emission of visible light and other forms of electromagnetic radiation. The electric current passing through the discharge channels rapidly heats and expands the air into plasma, producing acoustic shock waves (thunder) in the atmosphere.\n\n\nThe saying "lightning never strikes twice in the same place" is false. The Empire State Building is struck by lightning on average 100 times each year, and was once struck 15 times in 15 minutes.\n\n\nk.m.
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Could be. You might also feel a tingling in your feet or on your body. If that happens, if your hair stands or you feel tingling outside, esp. when the conditions are right for lightning, HIT THE DIRT! That could make the difference btween living and dying.
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Yes! You MUST be grounded to be struck...lol or harmed by lightning. This is because if you are not grounded there is nowhere for the electrical current to move to.\n\n ... think of it as a battery. It has to have both of those metal clasps touching on the top AND the bottom for it to work. If the battery is only touching one metal clasp the battery does not work.\n\n EXCEPTION: If u ly down on the ground u have a good chance of not being hit
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Surviving an experience that almost killed you.  You were "near death".
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I guess you mean most g's and survived!  I'd guess there have been people adjacent to explosions who have been subject to short bursts of very high g.\n\nWikipedia records two very high g survivals:\n\nColonel John Stapp in 1954 sustained 46.2 g in a rocket sled, while conducting research on the effects of human deceleration.\n\nFormula One race car driver David Purley survived an estimated 179.8 g in 1977 when he decelerated from 172 km·h−1 (107 mph) to 0 in a distance of 66 cm (26 inches) after his throttle got stuck wide open and he hit a wall.
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no, its a myth.  lightning is attracted to tall objects and metal objects (like lightning rods) so these get hit more often.
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Alzheimers is a gradual (usually over several years) deterioration of brain function. It appears to have some genetic component. From what we understand, which isn't as much as we would like, lightning or electric current in the vicinity of us is not a factor. The distribution of Alzheimers is not related to the distribution of electrical storms e.g. mountain ranges have more storms but no more Alzheimers. \n\nA direct hit by lightning could affect brain function in a survivor, but would not be classified as Alzheimers. So the answer is "No".
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The Empire State Building in New York City gets hit by lightning at least 100 times a year.
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This is taken from an article I used with my earth science students.\n\nOver 1,000 people get struck by lightning every year in the United States, and over 100 of them die as a result of the strike. Lightning is not something to toy with. \nIf you are caught outside in a storm, always look for appropriate shelter. Do not take any chances -- lightning can use you as a path to the earth just as easily as it can use any other object. Appropriate shelter would be a building or a car. If you do not have anywhere to go, then you should avoid taking shelter under trees. Trees attract lightning. Put your feet as close together as possible and crouch down with your head as low as possible without touching the ground. \n\nNever lay down on the ground. After lightning strikes the ground, there is an electric potential that radiates outward from the point of contact. If your body is in this area, current can flow through you. You never want the current to have the ability to pass through your body. This could cause cardiac arrest, not to mention other organ damage and burns. By making your body as low to the ground as possible and minimizing the amount of your body in contact with the ground, you can lower the possibility of a lightning-related injury. If a strike were to occur near you, the current would have a much more difficult time flowing through your body in this position. \n\nIf you are indoors, stay off the phone. If you must call someone, use a cordless phone or cell phone. If lightning strikes the phone line, the strike will travel to every phone on the line (and potentially to you if you are holding the phone). \n\nStay away from plumbing pipes (bath tub, shower). Lightning has the ability to strike a house or near a house and impart an electrical charge to the metal pipes used for plumbing. This threat is not as great as it used to be, because PVC (polyvinyl chloride) is often used for indoor plumbing these days. If you are not sure what your pipes are made of, wait it out.\n\nA couple of misconceptions:\nRubber tires keep you safe in a car because they do not conduct electricity.\nNope. In strong electric fields, rubber tires actually become more conductive than insulating. The reason you are safe in a car is because the lightning will travel around the surface of the vehicle and then go to ground. This occurs because the vehicle acts like a Faraday cage. Michael Faraday, a British physicist, discovered that a metal cage would shield objects within the cage when a high potential discharge hit the cage. The metal, being a good conductor, would direct the current around the objects and discharge it safely to the ground. This process of shielding is widely used today to protect the electrostatic sensitive integrated circuits in the electronics world. \n\nThe tallest objects in a storm always get struck by lightning.\nIt's true that taller objects are closer to the clouds, but as discussed previously, lightning can strike the ground at a close distance to a tall object. Taller objects may have a higher possibility of a strike, but where lightning is concerned, the strike path is not predictable.
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A car's frame is made of metal.  If lightning strikes the car, the metal will conduct around you through the metal because metal is a better conductor than your body is.  Unsafe is electricity going through you.  Do not stand upright in a storm or even under a tree.  Also don't lay flat on the ground because if lightening strikes near you, the conduction through the ground may offer more resistence than your body and the electricity may take a shortcut through your body.  Best thing without a car is to squat down.