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I once won some lightening, then was struck by some jerk named lottery, who knocked me to the ground and proceed to steal my drat lightening. There was no dinner that night in the dr rat house hold. 
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I was on a southwest flight where lightning struck the front and I could swear it arced across the bulkhead (where I was sitting). We had to “emergency” land at the nearest airport.
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My dad struck by lightning part 2: the static electrical boogaloo So my dad was spending the weekend at his grandparents house, the friedlands when there was a nasty electrical sturm the likes of which you only get in the prairies he watched with bated breath from a ground level window. There was a brilliant flash that photo inposed bright lightning bolts and a black sun and inprinted on him the next thing he knew he knew he was waking up across the room
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Nov 20, 2023 04:27
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BONE DOG posted:My dad struck by lightning part 2: the static electrical boogaloo Were you born of this storm?
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Nov 20, 2023 04:30
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redshirt posted:Were you born of this storm? So it's told that the electrification of my daddy's balls that day may have resulted in the power of my inception. Yes. I'll acknowledge that is a possibility
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Nov 20, 2023 04:36
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Blue Footed Booby posted:Are you never mistaken? Almost always but I never make up seeing things I didn't see. I'm not saying grandma mistook seeing mysterious balls of light floating around in her house for ball lighting. I think she never saw any balls of light to begin with. She made it up.
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Nov 20, 2023 05:06
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how has noone posted this yet? this woman has some important words for anyone thinking about getting struck by lightning. https://youtu.be/I482t6JhL4g?si=g33pHy5DU6IfKrfM
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Nov 20, 2023 05:20
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I'm among an extremely select group of people who have a 1-in-a-million "Something Awful Forums Account"
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Nov 20, 2023 05:24
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Toxic Mental posted:I'm among an extremely select group of people who have a 1-in-a-million "Something Awful Forums Account" bad choice!
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Toxic Mental posted:I'm among an extremely select group of people who have a 1-in-a-million "Something Awful Forums Account" We're all winners here. Also consider the odds of sperm and egg fertilization.
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Nov 20, 2023 05:28
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I saw a ball of light once
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Nov 20, 2023 06:49
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Lightning? No. But closest I got was accidentally grounding my leg while standing too close to a 15,000V Jacob's ladder I had built. I briefly saw a white flash arc to my hand and, next thing I knew, I was on my back on the floor a few feet away and was sitting up to try to figure out what just happened. First thing I saw was a friend of mine standing on the other side of the room with his mouth hanging cartoonishly wide open in shock, staring at me on the floor. My right arm swelled up and stunk link burned hair/flesh for the rest of the day and I had a mmmmmmassive headache for a while. I really, really, really wish I hadn't thrown away the primary transformer I used for that build. I could never afford to replace it with an equivalent, now.(for those unaware, you really don't want 15kV pulsing across the length of your body from your hands down through your legs. there are some very important and sensitive organs in that pathway.)
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Nov 20, 2023 06:57
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I was once struck by a Ford F-150 Lightning Seems like such a better value than a POS cybertruck
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Nov 20, 2023 08:37
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Flowers for QAnon posted:I was on a southwest flight where lightning struck the front and I could swear it arced across the bulkhead (where I was sitting). We had to “emergency” land at the nearest airport. It was probably St Elmo's Fire aka Witchfire
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Nov 20, 2023 16:09
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I scored four rushing touchdowns in pee wee football game as a child. I didn't win the lottery but I made Al Bundy proud.
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Nov 20, 2023 16:58
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My wife's bagpipe teacher has been struck by lightning twice. He jokes that it's because God hates bagpipes.
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Nov 20, 2023 20:24
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this is a friend of a friend thing, long ago. But I knew a friend that knew a guy's whos work won the lottery. Like big. Millions, and millions. They'd go in as an office. Well, dude was on vacation and didn't pitch in when they got the winning numbers. They didn't give him poo poo and they all quit. SUPPOSEDLY, he understood and was okay with it, but I'd be on a got dang mission. They'd be doing it together for months. i guess i could of just lied and said a friend.
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deep dish peat moss posted:There's this guy who has been struck by lightning 7 times and at that point you've gotta be eating lightning rods or something "Sullivan was first hit in April 1942. He took cover in a fire lookout tower during a thunderstorm. The tower didn't have a lightning rod and the building caught fire. He headed outside and was struck by lightning."  This guy was a park ranger in a high thunderstorm area. So at a far high risk than most people. But the last time he was struck, he was just asking for it: "On Saturday, June 25, 1977, Sullivan was hit while out fishing. The lightning struck his head and set his hair on fire. The bolt travelled through him and burnt his chest and stomach." Maybe every time after he gets struck, he says to himself, "Yep, that's it. Statistically, I can never be struck by lightning again, so I never have to worry about it."
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Nov 20, 2023 20:59
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Funky See Funky Do posted:Has there been documented video proof of ball lightning since tens (hundreds?) of billions of cameras were added to the world? Ball lighning is very rare, but has been recorded on video by researchers. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_lightning#Direct_measurements_of_natural_ball_lightning
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Nov 20, 2023 21:34
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Ralph Hurley posted:My grandma used to insist that when she was a girl she and other family members all saw ball lightning float from room to room in their house. So a few years ago during a thunderstorm a glowing orb appeared and disappeared in our dining room when my husband and myself were in the kitchen, I didn't say anything because I thought he would think that I was crazy/having a mental episode, after a bit he was like "Um, please don't think I am crazy, but did you see something in our dining room a little bit ago" "Um, a glowing light orb? Yeah, I thought you would think I was crazy" I don't know what it is but it would be one hell of a coincidence if we both saw the thing that matches the description of ball lighting.
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Nov 20, 2023 21:41
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Hit by lightning once as a kid while playing in the rain. Not a bolt, but what I can only describe as a sheet. Fell, got up less than a minute later, and got the gently caress inside. Then was standing on a rainy hill with a bunch of military peeps one day when lightning hit the hill. Multiple people standing in rain puddles all just dropped. I was a paramedic at the time, and there was a new doctor with us, like a GP or something, asking me what he should do. "Ask your med school for a refund doc"
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Nov 20, 2023 21:49
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Fly a kite in storms gorge is an outlier and should not be counted
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I once saw somebody post on something awful, even though those forums are dead
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Nov 20, 2023 23:31
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BigBadSteve posted:Ball lighning is very rare, but has been recorded on video by researchers. Testicle lightning.
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Nov 20, 2023 23:44
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lightning is stored in the...? sky?
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Nov 20, 2023 23:51
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Das Boo posted:Or attacked by a shark? Or won the lottery? Or any of those other one-in-a-million things? Is your friend's name Rod like a real life Garbage Pail Kid?
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I spent legit effort as a child trying to get bit by spiders, in order to gain Spider-Man powers.
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redshirt posted:I spent legit effort as a child trying to get bit by spiders, in order to gain Spider-Man powers. Did one ever bite you?
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Nov 21, 2023 01:09
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Haptical Sales Slut posted:Did one ever bite you? Of course, I carried spiders around on me all the time, imagine my mother's joy.
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redshirt posted:Of course, I carried spiders around on me all the time, imagine my mother's joy. You must have several powers. Best to not reveal them here, though.
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Nov 21, 2023 01:48
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Total Party Kill posted:lightning is stored in the...? sky? *nodding sagely* lightning is stored in the clouds
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Nov 21, 2023 03:44
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What are clouds but the balls of the sky
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dr_rat posted:What are clouds but the balls of the sky but if piss is stored in the balls then rain is....
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Somewhat lame answer but if any of yall have time, here's a podcast episode about a dude who was struck by lighting and its been lodged in my memory ever since I first listened to it, i highly recommend it. This lightning strike event itself isn't remarkable - its probably one of the more mundane human strikes in history because he shakes it off and goes home that night. But in his case, being struck by lightning can scramble around your nervous system and also leave you with some nasty psychological damage on top of that. Its basically electric long covid, for lack of a better word. Not sure if that happens to all lightning strike survivors, or even a minority of them, but it makes me go inside during lightning now lol. https://www.outsideonline.com/podcast/struck-lightning-redux/
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BigBadSteve posted:Ball lighning is very rare, but has been recorded on video by researchers. I'd love to know why it appears indoors in so many reports. Multiple accounts of it appearing on planes and one report I found particularly funny had it appearing the the kitchen and going out the cat door. Warm und Fuzzy posted:Is your friend's name Rod like a real life Garbage Pail Kid? Hm... Daryll... Barrel... Trash Barrel Child? Maybe gently caress, imagine being an off-brand Garbage Pail Kid. What were we talking about?
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Das Boo posted:I'd love to know why it appears indoors in so many reports. Multiple accounts of it appearing on planes and one report I found particularly funny had it appearing the the kitchen and going out the cat door. maybe it's like the horror movie Shocker and a dude like santa rides the lightning into your house instead of a reindeer drawn sled. And gives you death instead of presents
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redshirt posted:Were you born of this storm? My wife was born in the basement of a hospital that was being shredded by a tornado.
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I still do not have outright spider powers. Though I do feel as if I "move as a spider" though.
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I know a guy who won ten million dollars. He’s being smart with his money and never has to work again.
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