Some victims will suffer blown eardrums, bruised eyes, light sensitivity, massive headaches, concussions, burns, tinnitus (ringing in the ears), dizziness, nausea, vomiting, retinal detachment and optic nerve injury just to name a few. Since the nervous system is susceptible to the electrical force of lightning brain damage, paralysis and pain are also common. Injuries to the circulatory system are many and can include cardiac arrhythmia, myocardial damage, and pulmonary edema and cardiac arrest. Injuries that are latent, can be very difficult to deal with as many people who have symptoms may not realize the cause was a lightning strike earlier in their lives. Some injuries from lightning strikes are not realized right away and in some cases not for many years which can be even more traumatic to a person. Survivors of lightning strikes can suffer greatly from a large variety of issues and many times a combination of many at once. These, if not fatal can be a permanent reminder of that fateful day.Ī direct hit from a lightning bolt can certainly kill a person but sometimes it does not.
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Lightning often burns a victim’s skin in visible intricate patterns known as Lichtenberg figures which are sometimes called lightning flowers. The intense heat generated by a lightning strike can burn tissue, fuse skin cause lung damage, and the chest can be damaged by the mechanical force of rapidly expanding heated air. Of course this tremendous heat from a lightning strike can have similar effects on the human body as well. This can happen when the moisture in their shoes is quickly super heated into steam, the steam expands and the shoes explode off the victim’s feet. Numerous victims will be found with their shoe blown completely off their feet. There have been many accounts of lightning strike victims with many different adverse results of being struck by lightning. When a lightning bolt strikes a person it is often fatal but not always. There may be people who discount the power and effects of lightning especially when it comes to personal safety but shouldn’t for some very important reasons.įor instance a single lightning bolt can pack up to 300kV (300,000 Volts) of energy and can heat the surrounding air to 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit , which is five times hotter than the surface of the sun. Lightning safety is a big topic in part because lightning kills more people each year in the United States than tornadoes, volcanoes, hurricanes, and earthquakes combined. Just in the United States alone there are an estimated 100,000 thunderstorms each year and each one of these individual storms can produce plenty of lightning. We talk a lot about keeping safe during severe weather including what precautions to take to keep you safe from lightning in a thunderstorm. Keeping people safe during all types of weather including severe thunderstorms is an important part of our mission here at WeatherNation.
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