Two more hunters killed by lightning

[MuleyFever]

Didnt see another thread on this.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article312272311.html

 

[Spence1875]

That is crazy, two groups is two, one with two dogs. Very sad.

 

[tall]

What a shame. So sad for their families.

 

[GSPHUNTER]

SAD.

 

[MallardSX2]

Wow. That's terrible to hear.

 

[antlerridge]

Such a rare and tragic coincidence


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[rclouse79]

Dang. After learning about these two unfortunate stories, I am going to be more conservative when storms come through. There was a time my son and I were headed down a ridge as a storm was coming in. I had my trekking poles strapped to my pack with the metal tip pointing up. I kept hearing a zst zst zst noise. I took my pack off and discovered the noise was coming from the tip of my trekking poles. When I held them handle side up there was nothing, but tip side up and I heard the zst zst zst again. We ran the rest of the way back to the rig. Scary stuff.

 

[MuleyFever]

Ive had one experience where I was camped up on a high saddle and a storm came through at night. I could feel the static and my hair on my arms was standing up. Scary situation for sure.

 

[BravoNovember]

There was a Wisconsin DNR employee that was killed by lightning as well.

Lightning strike kills Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources employee

Adam Zirbel, 48, was a forester for the Wisconsin DNR, as well as a husband and father.

www.jsonline.com

 

[HairyScandinavian]

Dammit

 

[Hunter26]

Dang, that is crazy. I guess if you had to go and it was already written that is probably one of the better ways to go.

 

[My Name]

Dang. After learning about these two unfortunate stories, I am going to be more conservative when storms come through. There was a time my son and I were headed down a ridge as a storm was coming in. I had my trekking poles strapped to my pack with the metal tip pointing up. I kept hearing a zst zst zst noise. I took my pack off and discovered the noise was coming from the tip of my trekking poles. When I held them handle side up there was nothing, but tip side up and I heard the zst zst zst again. We ran the rest of the way back to the rig. Scary stuff.

Wow that's scary.. you were almost a lightning rod!

 

[HairyScandinavian]

^I've heard that noise before. My middle son and I were deer hunting and using a flat bed center console pontoon barge I built from the ground up for hauling buggies and such to our camp. Deer hunting everybody else went home, son volunteered to stay with me to hunt the last evening and get home late. I arrowed a fat doe and he was still hunting so I thought if I could get that doe quartered up by sundown we could get out of there asap. As you can guess, I bumped her and she took off at mach speed. I backed out and waited for my son to meet me at the designated spot, we picked up the trail after dark and could see the flashes of a storm on the horizon. That doe ran until she ran out of blood and went 150 more yards in the thick west texas scrub brush. Flashes from that storm were brighter than my headlamp at that point, we wagon wheeled until we found her and I ripped the guts out and threw her in the lake and we jogged 3/4 mile back to the boat and brought it around and picked her up. It was drizzling and the storm was on top of us. That barge's top speed was about 32 mph SOG and we had it pegged, drizzle starting to get heavier and strong with came from behind and we were up to around 34 mph faster than it's ever gone before. We had some fishing rods and aluminum on the console and the buzzing started low and I thought the noise was coming from the engine until it got loud enough. The fishing rod tips were flopping a little in the wind and when they got close to eachother you could see static electricity. I was afraid to touch them but eventually grabbed them one by one and pulled them down and threw them on the deck but the static noise was still coming from somewhere around there. Pulled up to the dock and sent the boy to the truck because I didn't want him in the boat and the skies unleashed like you unplugged the drain plug on the clouds and then the lightning was past us and gone. I told the boy after we got out of there that it was a very bad example and we shouldn't have been in that situation, he said he knew and I was a dummy.