Wed. 09/08 - What Happens When You Get Struck By Lightning?
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Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff
4.6 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2021
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:28.7 | welcome to the khaki ride home for Wednesday, September 7th, 2021. |
| 0:40.3 | I'm Jackson Bird today. |
| 0:42.4 | What it's actually like getting struck by lightning and the community of survivors helping each other cope. |
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| 1:18.7 | Being struck by lightning is a terrifying prospect, and the stuff of legends. |
| 1:24.4 | Like the case of Roy Sullivan, aka the Spark Ranger, the Shenandoah National Park Ranger, |
| 1:30.1 | who was allegedly struck by lightning a full seven times throughout his life, even fighting |
| 1:36.4 | off a bear immediately after getting struck the seventh and final time. We marvel at Sullivan's |
| 1:43.0 | bad luck, but we don't often talk about the physical and |
| 1:46.1 | psychological effects he endured, including burns, hearing loss, and it seems, mental health |
| 1:52.1 | challenges that led to his death in 1983 at the age of 71. There is some doubt about how many |
| 1:59.4 | times Sullivan really got struck by lightning, since not a single person ever witnessed any of the seven incidents. |
| 2:06.3 | But he was included in the scrupulous Guinness Book of World Records, beginning with strike number four, |
| 2:12.2 | and contemporary newspaper articles do cross-check his injuries with the doctor's notes. |
| 2:17.4 | Skepticism is something familiar to lightning strike survivors. Even for the paper articles do cross-check his injuries with a doctor's notes. |
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