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  • #21
    Re: Lightning strikes woman, 2 boys in Brampton

    I for one don't believe that my parents left a politically turmoil Turkey to give me a better future just to live a life that is absurd and meaningless.

    Hey if you were still living in turckey you would have a very special relationship with some farm animal, it's like a fab overthere or something.
    Hayastan or Bust.

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    • #22
      Re: Lightning strikes woman, 2 boys in Brampton

      Originally posted by KanadaHye View Post
      Sometimes I wonder how would have my life been different had I grown up in Turkey.
      I think Haykakan has the answer to your burning question:

      Originally posted by Haykakan View Post
      Hey if you were still living in turckey you would have a very special relationship with some farm animal, it's like a fab overthere or something.

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      • #23
        Re: Lightning strikes woman, 2 boys in Brampton

        Originally posted by Haykakan View Post
        Hey if you were still living in turckey you would have a very special relationship with some farm animal, it's like a fab overthere or something.
        2 turks one horse?

        I think I would have headed for Europe, I really don't understand everyone's fascination with the America's. Adult life is a pain in the vor. Now the whole world wants to live the same way as here... they can have it. I'm on strike lol
        Last edited by KanadaHye; 08-14-2009, 12:24 AM.
        "Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it." ~Malcolm X

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        • #24
          Re: Lightning strikes woman, 2 boys in Brampton



          A bolt from the blue

          An afternoon at a soccer field in Brampton, Ont., turned terribly wrong for two young boys and a woman, who were hit without warning by a powerful bolt of lightning on Wednesday.

          On Thursday, Kyus Caines, 5, was in critical condition at the Hospital for Sick Children in downtown Toronto. His mother, Dulce Caines, was in serious but stable condition at Brampton Civic Hospital. A three-year-old boy, whose name has not been released, had his condition upgraded to serious from critical.

          Witnesses expressed surprise and bafflement at the timing of the strike and its strength. Many described the weather at the time as being partly cloudy, with no rain falling.

          Environment Canada meteorologist Geoff Coulson said there was a storm in the area, but it was considered "weak and a very localized event" that only produced 15 to 20 flashes of lightning.

          It appears the three may have been hit by a rare type of lightning strike colloquially known as a "bolt from the blue." These strikes usually hit in what appear to be relatively calm skies, and with great force.


          Strikes from afar
          "This episode, where it came out of nowhere – they call it 'the bolt from the blue' – [occurs in] only about five per cent of lighting strikes," said Dr. Ernest Chiodo, an expert on lightning injuries.

          "It is called positive lightning. It tends to be the more dangerous form of lightning."

          Lightning is formed when ice crystals in clouds rub up against each other to cause positive and negative electric charges.

          The positive charge migrates to the top of the cloud, while the bottom of the cloud is negatively charged, according to Environment Canada.

          Negative lightning, which occurs in 95 per cent of strikes, originates in the negatively charged bottom portion of the cloud and hits the ground directly, Chiodo said.

          But positive lightning originates at the top of the cloud. It can travel as far as 50 kilometres horizontally away from the cloud before suddenly striking downward, said Chiodo.

          Positive lightning also tends to be a lot more powerful than negative lightning. Positive lightning strikes can carry up to one billion volts of electricity, compared to a maximum of about 100 million volts in negative lightning, according the U.S. National Weather Service.

          Because the bolt from the top of the cloud has to travel a long way to reach the ground, it must carry "an extremely large current" to complete the electric circuit between the cloud and the ground, says the U.S Weather Service.

          To wit, an average flash of negative lightning could power a 100-watt light bulb for two to three months, whereas a bolt of positive lightning could power that same bulb for up to 100 years.


          Disproportionate human harm
          Negative lightning also typically has a very short pulse – just a few millionths of a second, Chiodo said. "However, positive lightning has a longer duration and a greater capacity to cause harm to human organs," he said.

          The vast majority of the electricity in a lightning strike is carried around the human body, not through it. But those who have been hit can suffer severe injuries.

          The chances of surviving a lightning strike are good – the U.S. National Lightning Safety Institute says nine out of 10 people hit by lightning survive. But most people hit by lightning suffer long-lasting health effects like memory loss, says Environment Canada.

          Lightning strikes can also affect a person's nervous system, which can impact multi-tasking and thought-processing abilities, says Dr. Mary Ann Cooper, one of the world's leading authorities on lightning injuries. Besides injuries to the nervous system, people struck by lightning could also suffer eye damage, deafness or ringing in the ears, or amnesia.

          http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/...explainer.html
          "Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it." ~Malcolm X

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