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jmyrlefuller
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Why lightning is zapping fewer Americans
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August 15, 2017, 08:09:03 pm »
http://www.mlive.com/news/us-world/index.ssf/2017/08/why_lightning_is_zapping_fewer.html
by Tanda Gmiter
August 15, 2017
In the 1940s, lightning killed more than 300 people a year. So far this year, there have been 13 fatalities - putting the U.S. on a path for an estimated record low of 17, according to The Associated Press.
Meteorologists and experts say the shift is likely two-fold: People have learned to go indoors to avoid bad weather, and
there are fewer farmers and other outside jobs
that make people easy targets during a lightning storm.
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Kind of surprising considering all the geniuses I see out on the lake in thunderstorms.
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