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- From: shipman@zippy.gso.uri.edu (Scott Lindstrom)
- Newsgroups: sci.geo.meteorology
- Subject: Re: reporter hit by lightning
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.081358@zippy.gso.uri.edu>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 12:13:58 GMT
- References: <1992Jul22.183014.17649@news.iastate.edu>
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- Reply-To: shipman@zippy.gso.uri.edu (Scott Lindstrom)
- Organization: U of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography
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- In article <1992Jul22.183014.17649@news.iastate.edu>, jbhuber@iastate.edu
- (Joseph B Huber)
- $>I heard that (yesterday?) a Florida TV reporter was partially hit by
- lightning
- $>while taping a segment outside during a storm.
- $>
- $>One of the local TV stations here showed the video tape of the incident, but
- I
- $>missed it.
- $>
- $>Does anyone have any details on this, or actually see the tape of the
- $>incident?
- $>
-
- They showed that on the TV here. He was filming in a storm, under an umbrella,
- there was a spark/flash and he dropped the microphone. The local anchor said
- the bolt had struck the remote van and traveled along the mic cord to the guy's
- hand. Although why this didn't knock out the electronics in the van is a
- mystery. Or a testimony to surge protection.
-
- Scott
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