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#1 Post by Andrew » Fri Jun 23, 2006 2:22 am

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,200608,00.html
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#2 Post by Stratus311 » Fri Jun 23, 2006 2:59 am

Man that sucks!! And I can't say I'm too surprised. The lightning here in Colorado the last few days has been out of control. We had a strike just a few hundred feet from my house yesterday. I was working on the bike in the garage and when it struck, I went flying onto the garage floor(because it scared me, not because it struck me. :D ). It really is a sad story though.
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#3 Post by HeathersWheels » Fri Jun 23, 2006 5:33 am

lightening has always mad me nervous. My mom had a lightening strike the tree and it fell on her garage. Everyone was ok.
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#4 Post by KarateChick » Fri Jun 23, 2006 6:14 am

Help me out here - Now who was it on this forum with the bike trip where he had to fix the bike with a very temporary measure that actually worked - can't remember the exact details... and then got struck by lightning on the same trip..... it was a good story.
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#5 Post by Shiv » Fri Jun 23, 2006 3:01 pm

The lightning here in Colorado the last few days has been out of control.
As if we had any control over it in the first place. :laughing:


But yah, that does suck. My grandfather was struck by lightning and he lived. Must've been some kind of crazy experience. He says he doesn't remember a thing about it, though. He was just walking along one moment and woke up in the hospital the next.


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#6 Post by camthepyro » Fri Jun 23, 2006 6:28 pm

That makes me regret riding in a thunderstorm earlier today, pooring rain, lightning everywhere, but I was most scared about the wind, I pulled into a parking lot to let it work itself out for a while, and coming into the parking lot I couldn't drive in a straight line at all, that was scary.
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#7 Post by 1will » Fri Jun 23, 2006 8:45 pm

i was traveling in a cage through vermont once upon a time when lightning struck the roadside embankment about 30 yards ahead of us. it is an experience i will never forget. nature is an incredible force...
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#8 Post by Sculelos » Sat Jun 24, 2006 3:43 pm

camthepyro wrote:That makes me regret riding in a thunderstorm earlier today, pooring rain, lightning everywhere, but I was most scared about the wind, I pulled into a parking lot to let it work itself out for a while, and coming into the parking lot I couldn't drive in a straight line at all, that was scary.
haha, I rode in a thunderstorm yesterday, it was fun though and I think it would be ironic if Lightning struck my lightning, although I probably would die.
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#9 Post by CNF2002 » Sun Jun 25, 2006 7:19 am

I'm scared of meteorites.
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#10 Post by DieMonkeys » Sun Jun 25, 2006 7:37 am

CNF2002 wrote:I'm scared of meteorites.
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There's about 1000 identified objects in the Kuiper's Belt (like the asteroid belt except past pluto), 6 of which are possible deadly objects that may hit us. That's SIX we know will hit us, one of them is supposedly supposed to come around in A.D. 207X. Now, realize this, those are the one's we've identfied, there are MILLIONS of objects in the Kuiper's Belt. Also, would you like to know how many near misses we've had? (Objects that have flown between us and the moon). Check out NASA's website about the NEAT (Near Earth Asteroid Tracking) program, http://neat.jpl.nasa.gov/
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