#lightning strikes

[beccawise7]

Lightning Storm in Austin...

~beccawise7💜🖤

📷: swphotography

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[nostalgia-eh52]

1960s Lou Christie

[rgrfederer]

andy "i never liked tennis anyway" murray is now coaching novak djokovic

[whereifindsanity]

[dopescissorscashwagon]

“Triple Strike”Do not adjust your television set…. Yes this just happened and I can’t believe I was able to capture it. ⚡️⚡️⚡️@EmpireStateBldg @_WTCOfficial @jpmorgan Building

📸 by Dan Martland @dantvusa

May need a click

[fred-waffen]

[boymosher-420]

Wow. The perfect shot!

[g-h-o-s-t-2000]

an ocean of dreams last time limit the past devours us

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[saraichinwag]

Is Lightning Hotter Than The Sun?

[rhithefella]

Naming the 2.4 Soccer Team "Light Strikers" because I'm cheesy like that

[ashleybenlove]

"Even with your brain exposed like that, you still remember me. Impressive."

DAMN, BILLY.

Billy had decades to craft that absolute burn.

[archivist-crow]

On this day:

HUMAN LIGHTNING RODS

On May 20, 1946, in Kenton, Ohio, Charles Brown was struck by lightning for the tenth time while at the public library checking out a book. Brown is one of a handful of individuals known as human lightning rods.

Roy Cleveland Sullivan, a forest ranger from Waynesboro, Virginia, was hit seven times over thirty-six years. In 1942, while he on duty in a fire lookout tower, a lightning strike removed his toenail. In 1969, lightning scorched his eyebrows and knocked him unconscious. The 1970 hit, in his own yard, burned his shoulder. In 1972 and 1973, lightning set fire to his hair. He began to carry a container of water around after the first incident, and he used it to put himself out after the second incident, which also tossed him from his vehicle and knocked a shoe off. In 1976, a campground lightning strike injured his ankle. Hit while fishing in 1977, he was hospitalized for burns to his chest and stomach. His charred ranger hats are displayed in the Guinness World Record exhibit halls.

Carl Mize, affectionately known as Sparky, has been hit four times. Mize was first struck in 1978 when he was a bull rider in the rodeo circuit; he grabbed the handle of his pickup just as it was hit by lightning. In 1996, Mize explains, lightning "hit the tree and went over into a street light pole and knocked the top of it and followed that cable around to where I was working on it.... It went through my arm and then back out of my chest." In 1999 he was holding onto a swing chain when struck. In 2005, lightning blew a hole in the bottom of his shoe. "The guy that rides in the truck with me, he wants hazardous duty pay now," Mize said.

Text from: Almanac of the Infamous, the Incredible, and the Ignored by Juanita Rose Violins, published by Weiser Books, 2009

[heavymetal]

LOUDNESS!!

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