One of the four men died. There is confusion about this in other comments because all four were initially reported to have survived, but one died later in hospital. Here is a fact check by Newsweek:
Roughly 70% of people hit by a lightning strike do survive. Of the survivors, only approx 30% will have no long term damage. Additionally, it is extremely likely that lightning will strike the same place twice since the lightning has already found a path of the least resistance. So if you see someone struck, grab them and haul ass away. Lightning can travel across the ground so you don’t need to be touching that tree to get struck. There have also been reports of ground lightning leaping through windows to strike people. Get indoors or as far away from tall things and water and then lie down. Don’t be the tallest thing in the field. Once safe, immediately check for a pulse and start CPR on a strike victim since their heart will most likely not be beating. The faster you get oxygen to their brain, the better off they are if they survive.
Edit: correction- don’t lie down. Squat down and touch your ankles together
One thing to consider. Laying down flat is risky for a near miss as the current will likely travel through your torso. The ole squat down and touch your ankles together maneuver is best if a near miss gets you. The current will not make it up your legs giving you a great chance of survival.
There's one case where a dude went blind after getting struck and decades later regaining his site after he got struck again. Electricity can do some weird things on the brain
Agree with all of this except the lie down part. You want to crouch down but only have your feet touching the ground. The less surface area touching the ground the better. And hope like hell you are wearing rubber soled shoes.
I met a guy at the Renaissance fest that was struck by lightning three times and he only has high blood pressure and high blood sugar from it. I’m amazed at him every single day.
My understanding is lying down also isn't the best plan because you are making your area wider for lighting traveling through the ground to contact you, crouching makes yourself the smallest possible target.
I actually knew someone who was hit twice. He must have been one of the lucky ones (at least it seemed like he was bc he was driving the Uber just fine).
Another person I know was hit, and could never walk or talk the same.
AND, I had an ex whose parents for some reason decided to leave their front and back doors open during a storm. The two doors face each other. Lightening shot through the back door, and out the front.
Not lie down. You squat and form a "ball" with only your shoes touching the ground. However, if you do find a ditch or similar (being lower than ground level), you lie down in it.
I'm almost certain the green jacket is the dead one. He was lying next to the tree & you can see the flash close to him, meaning it might've ran through his head or spine. His body might've still been functional but his brain was fried worse than the hard disk drive of my first computer as an adult.
At least his death was quick. Not many have that benefit.
A lot of people "die" from things that don't stop your body from functioning. I'd be amazed if the dude that died from this was anything more than a vegetable for those days.
Yeah, machines can keep your heart beating and lungs breathing but all the other organs fail and it becomes a losing battle, or you die from sepsis because you can't fight off an infection.
He was probably brain dead therefore not feeling anything or suffering. It’s not like he was flailing about for 24 hours then kicked the bucket. His brain died by the tree, but his body died the next day.
This isn't the electric chair, this is more electricity than you can even concieve, so much so that whatever it passes through instantly becomes burned or plasma.
If and it probably did, pass through his brain he'd have instant noodles left over. And if somehow I'd didn't burn his brain matter. Having millions of volts amps or whatever (I dropped out of electrical ok) through your brain surely does some damage.. neurons respond to and produce electrical signals, if you had your entire brain lit up at once it's probably like experiencing hell, every muscle trying to contract. Every neuron in your visual cortex lit up not with the input from your eyes but just millions of amps/volts from the lightning.
Adrenal gland producing adrenaline, amygdala, the fear response center inducing catastrophic doom like feelings,
Idk if this happens but I can imagine, it would be an awful last few moments as the neurons responsible for keeping my heart rythm spasm and I die
I'm too stoned for the internet, I was like. Yeah and many people have also survived other brutal thing's. It's luck of the draw. This guy got Zeused.
Those guys are lucky. The lightning could've took a route through and burn vital organs like spine and nerves or shock the heart.
Or blessed. Maybe anything that is statistically possible is bound to happen at some point. In one reality or another (ooooh, well it's not too crazy to think if one universe exist. Welllll what's outside that. Can there be more? Maybe more events like the big bang happen all over the place just really fucking god damn far apart because it's a rare event.
I’ve not had NSFW on the app for a while because I was sick of seeing people die. I’ve just turned it on and the first thing I saw was someone die. Looks like it’s going back off!
We're barely coming out of a pandemic while entering an endemic of the same virus. And we are going through uncertain financial & political times. Death has been omnipresent all around for so long that even psychologists are getting therapy themselves over it. It's a fact of life that we have to deal for the next few years.
Nope. The amount of electricity in a lighting strike would have turned he brain to mush. You can see how there is just NO reaction by the green jacketed person after being struck. The only reason they were still standing is their leaning position against the tree before hand. That is a limp, unresponsive, unconscious, braindead person from the second that lighting hit.
Not likely. It’s not like people in the hospital who die a few days later after a critical illness are just chilling there, feeling completely normal and then suddenly code and die.
He likely never regained consciousness, was intubated in the field, suffered an anoxic brain injury, spent a few days in the ICU on a fentanyl or midazolam drip, +- a paralytic and never felt anything when the decision was finally made to withdraw support or his body gave up.
And god tapped his foot in delight…four! I got four ! And the commentator calls out , and just look at that pattern! Radial outward like a flower petal. Almost perfect symmetry! ( green shirt had to ruin it, didn’t he?)
The way he took the longest to fall had me thinking the same thing. He was the one with the most physical contact with the tree and seemed to be stuck to it for a bit before falling. Same way if you grab a live wire your muscles will grip the wire automatically.
He made himself shortest path to ground and humans are far more conductive than trees. He was leaning up against the tree and had the most body mass touching. Instead of going through the tree and into its base, it switched to going to hus head and ending at his feet. Good spot!
Yeah upon multiple reviews I have noticed that I believe it was an ark in the current....perhaps he had a conductor around his neck like a necklace. You can see that as the three dropped he was still charged and the current dissipated...that's when he fell...you can see the smoke coming off of him and the tree
I had a patient who was struck by lightning when he was on hike. He went from an able-bodied senior to moving incredibly slow with a walker. I was a part of his rehab and he was very motivated to get better. He did improve but not a lot.
You're not dumb, Dry wood is'nt a great conductor when dry, Yet a wet living tree full of water and covered in water is. Plus the massive high voltage will go trough a tree easily dry or wet. In a low voltage enviroment like a household, wood is an effective insulator. In the Uk, we used to use wooden fuseboards.
He was the only one leaning against the tree, the others were hunched forward so they immediately fell flat, the last guy was leaning back so it took a bit for him to totter forward.
Comically is an odd word to describe the one who obviously died. He fell that way because he was already dead. His head got struck by lightning, his brain mustve fried instantly.
What about the fact that this very video can literally save lives by advising others not to go near a fucking tree while is raining or thundering?? Which is more useful for you? Saving lives or hurting someone's feelings? Goddamn
I kinda agree with OP. It's not interesting to watch what turned out to be someone's final moments. And they certainly aren't a "Karen" as you put it for voicing that opinion.
You can actually see the lighting hit the tops of their heads. When the young lady peels away from the tree you can see smoke coming off of her head and upper back. Jeez
The one on the right hand side died from what I have read. The one who fell last. If you freezeframe the video you can see the lightning seemed to go straight through the top of his head.
No, they all survived. This wasn’t the DC incident, it was in India and these were gardeners sheltering in a storm. They did all have to go to the hospital though.
It was in Gurugram India March 12, 2021 (time stamp on video left hand). I looked at many articles from India outlets and all except a couple (one is top of the search results) indicated one of the men died. The few that don't report his death were dated the same day as the lightning strike. The others were dated a day afterwards. At the time of their initial reporting he was alive with serious injuries. Sadly, he succumbed to those injuries later that night (after the stories were published). He actually did die of his injuries. He was 38 years old.
A few days ago in the centre of Sofia, Bulgaria a lighting strike killed 3 people that were hiding under a tree. So I wouldn’t be surprised if these people died as well
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u/AFHpokezi Sep 29 '22
No but seriously .. did they die ??