looks like you’ve just been hit by
lightning while the paramedics give you
CPR here are a few facts that probably
won’t help you at all welcome to
watchmojo.com ting down the five most
unbelievable facts about shocking you
know that’s an easy pun and I’m need
shocking or you’re fired
we’re counting down the five most
shocking facts about getting hit by
lightning yes genius yeah I ever tell
you I was struck by lightning seven
times
welcome a dog down the road number five
that lightning undressed you lightnings
temperature is roughly fifty three
thousand degrees Fahrenheit when it
strikes you it usually travels over your
skin heating up everything in its path
this heat can singe and shred your
clothes water molecules like sweat on
your feet can vaporize so violently that
they blow your shoes right off that
looks across the drive one I’ve seen my
boots over there they were no longer on
my feet and one of them was smoking at
least you weren’t listening to an iPod
at the time or else instead of traveling
across your skin the metal and the
headphones could have directed the
current right into your head breaking
your jaw and rupturing your eardrums
number four it probably didn’t hit you
directly
while direct lightning strikes are the
most dangerous kind they’re actually
less common than the other ways you can
get struck people who take cover under
trees are usually hit with what’s called
a side splash where some of the current
jumps off the bolt traveling through the
tree the most casualties are caused by
ground current though when an object is
struck by lightning current can spread
out through the ground around the object
it was not a direct strike struck to the
parking lot and traveled to mr. Hall the
current can then electrocute any nearby
person or animal in 2005 at a dairy farm
in Australia 68 cows were killed at once
when lightning struck a nearby tree
number three you’ve got lightning
flowers on you these nifty patterns also
known as Lichtenberg figures appear on
the skin of lightning strike victims the
reddish branching pattern is caused by
the bursting of capillaries as the
current passes over your skin the
patterns can last for a few hours or a
few days they can also occur on the
ground with lightning hits in that case
you’ll often find fulgurites also known
as petrified lightning which are
minerals biomass and other materials
fuse together by the lightnings intense
temperature if we could somehow harness
this light chair it into the flux
capacitor number two you’ll probably
live
globally there are one point four
billion strikes per year it’s estimated
that 240,000 people per year gets smited
by Thor’s hammer and Mjolnir obliterates
about a tenth of them see Thor was the
Norse god of thunder as you probably
know and lightning was seen as the
embodiment of his hammer slaying Giants
as he rode his goat drawn chariot across
the sky I’m getting off-track look
somewhere between 70 and 90 percent of
lightning strike victims survived so I’m
willing to bet you’ll make it through
but number one you’re going to have some
side effects line one I can’t hardly
hear get twitches and shakes out of
nowhere always losing my line of thought
it’s estimated that as many as 80% of
victims will have some long-term effects
over half have damage to their eyes
including nerve degeneration or retinal
detachment it was just like a big jolt
there I didn’t know what it was it was
like as if something had hit me in the
side and throwing me on the ground at
the same time the majority also have
damage to their ears including chronic
ear infections in vertigo
very unfortunate victims experienced
parkinsonism a complex of symptoms
reminiscent of Parkinson’s disease or
they have other neurological problems
like chronic seizures sleep disorders
even mood swings and personality changes
hope you’ve got good doctor next time
maybe you should try using the lightning
squat actually that would not make me
feel safe with you so did you find these
facts shocking what you mean
shocking isn’t it have you ever been
struck for more harder than the Sun top
tens and never strike twice top fives be
sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com
lightning while the paramedics give you
CPR here are a few facts that probably
won’t help you at all welcome to
watchmojo.com ting down the five most
unbelievable facts about shocking you
know that’s an easy pun and I’m need
shocking or you’re fired
we’re counting down the five most
shocking facts about getting hit by
lightning yes genius yeah I ever tell
you I was struck by lightning seven
times
welcome a dog down the road number five
that lightning undressed you lightnings
temperature is roughly fifty three
thousand degrees Fahrenheit when it
strikes you it usually travels over your
skin heating up everything in its path
this heat can singe and shred your
clothes water molecules like sweat on
your feet can vaporize so violently that
they blow your shoes right off that
looks across the drive one I’ve seen my
boots over there they were no longer on
my feet and one of them was smoking at
least you weren’t listening to an iPod
at the time or else instead of traveling
across your skin the metal and the
headphones could have directed the
current right into your head breaking
your jaw and rupturing your eardrums
number four it probably didn’t hit you
directly
while direct lightning strikes are the
most dangerous kind they’re actually
less common than the other ways you can
get struck people who take cover under
trees are usually hit with what’s called
a side splash where some of the current
jumps off the bolt traveling through the
tree the most casualties are caused by
ground current though when an object is
struck by lightning current can spread
out through the ground around the object
it was not a direct strike struck to the
parking lot and traveled to mr. Hall the
current can then electrocute any nearby
person or animal in 2005 at a dairy farm
in Australia 68 cows were killed at once
when lightning struck a nearby tree
number three you’ve got lightning
flowers on you these nifty patterns also
known as Lichtenberg figures appear on
the skin of lightning strike victims the
reddish branching pattern is caused by
the bursting of capillaries as the
current passes over your skin the
patterns can last for a few hours or a
few days they can also occur on the
ground with lightning hits in that case
you’ll often find fulgurites also known
as petrified lightning which are
minerals biomass and other materials
fuse together by the lightnings intense
temperature if we could somehow harness
this light chair it into the flux
capacitor number two you’ll probably
live
globally there are one point four
billion strikes per year it’s estimated
that 240,000 people per year gets smited
by Thor’s hammer and Mjolnir obliterates
about a tenth of them see Thor was the
Norse god of thunder as you probably
know and lightning was seen as the
embodiment of his hammer slaying Giants
as he rode his goat drawn chariot across
the sky I’m getting off-track look
somewhere between 70 and 90 percent of
lightning strike victims survived so I’m
willing to bet you’ll make it through
but number one you’re going to have some
side effects line one I can’t hardly
hear get twitches and shakes out of
nowhere always losing my line of thought
it’s estimated that as many as 80% of
victims will have some long-term effects
over half have damage to their eyes
including nerve degeneration or retinal
detachment it was just like a big jolt
there I didn’t know what it was it was
like as if something had hit me in the
side and throwing me on the ground at
the same time the majority also have
damage to their ears including chronic
ear infections in vertigo
very unfortunate victims experienced
parkinsonism a complex of symptoms
reminiscent of Parkinson’s disease or
they have other neurological problems
like chronic seizures sleep disorders
even mood swings and personality changes
hope you’ve got good doctor next time
maybe you should try using the lightning
squat actually that would not make me
feel safe with you so did you find these
facts shocking what you mean
shocking isn’t it have you ever been
struck for more harder than the Sun top
tens and never strike twice top fives be
sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com
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