• Vraylle@lemmy.sdf.org
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    5 months ago

    Ouch. Hopefully they didn’t actually feel that. I didn’t when it happened to me, either time. Conveniently woke up later.

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      5 months ago

      This is just a reminder, that this is more likely to happen than winning the lottery.

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        5 months ago

        Yes. Witnesses figured I died each time. Temporarily paralyzed the first time and with a “missing” few seconds, knocked out cold the second time. I try to avoid thunderstorms these days.

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          5 months ago

          I was gonna ask, where do you hang out for this to happen to you twice lmao.

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          5 months ago

          In Olde English ‘Vraylle’ surely means ‘one who walks about carrying a giant metal rod in a thunderstorm’. That’s got to be it.

          Seriously, when you were told you had potential this is not how you were supposed to demonstrate it! I hope you’re Ok and these incidents are just a good story you can tell now.

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            5 months ago

            Ha! “Potential”

            Yeah, was fine in both cases. First time it was cloudy but not storming. Literal “bolt out of the blue” that liked me more than the large metal pole next to me. Second was trying to leave a park before the storm rolled in (obviously didn’t quite make it).

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        5 months ago

        Some redness and temporarily paralysis, but nothing permanent, unless it’s hidden in my brain. Disappointed I didn’t get superpowers.

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          Oh that’s good. I saw pictures of people with crazy lighting bolt burns on their body that looked like a tattoo. That’s why I asked.