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From: Jesse Ferrell (WeatherMatrix) (jesse{at}weathermatrix.net)
Date: Tue Aug 12 2003 - 07:04:57 EDT
||||SOUTH CAROLINA:
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=9989567&BRD=1382&PAG=461&dept_id=161822&rfi=6
By MARTIN CAHN, C-I staff reporter
QUOTES:
"``My husband was caught out there in his pick-up truck under the pine
trees at the end of the driveway. He was the one who said I needed to see
the car.``
Flames were shooting out through the Mirage`s windshield, she said.
the lightning appears to have left the small tree under which the car was
parked unscathed.
``Just a few leaves got singed from the fire,`` Nelson said.
The lightning bolt severed the steering wheel from the steering column and
shot a stereo speaker from a side door into the back of the Mirage."
||||GEORGIA:
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/news/0812story122009_news.shtml
QUOTES:
"August 12, 2003) A construction worker was taken to Strong Memorial
Hospital after lightning struck near where he was working in Henrietta on
Monday.
The lightning struck around 2 p.m. near a site on Galway Terrace where a
crew is installing a sewer line. Henrietta Fire District Chief Jim Comstock
said he doesnt believe that anybody was hit by lightning, but it was close
enough that some of the workers tingled,he said. "
||||GEORGIA (8/10/03):
0725 PM NEW BORN GA LIGHTNING
08/10/03 NEWTON LIGHTNING STRUCK A HOUSE
AND SET IT ON FIRE.
||||FLORIDA:
http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/News/WestVolusia/03WVolWEST03081203.htm
QUOTES:
"DELAND -- Lightning stunned four construction workers Monday after a bolt
struck the unfinished DeLand High School auditorium, fire officials said.
The workers were on a raised platform inside the open-roof auditorium when
the building was struck by lightning, DeLand Fire Capt. Terry Griffiths said."
||||FLORIDA:
0400 PM VILANO BEACH FL LIGHTNING
08/11/03 ST JOHNS *** 1 INJ ***
LIGHTNING STRUCK MAN AT
THE TOWN AND COUNTRY MOTEL
IN VILANO BEACH. INJURIES
ARE NOT SERIOUS. REPORTED
BY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.
||||KENTUCKY:
http://www.wkyt.com/Global/story.asp?S=1397638&nav=4CALHP9a
QUOTES:
"A Pulaski County teenager was struck by lightning while in a ski boat on
Lake Cumberland.
Park Ranger Lisa Howard says boat was a quarter-mile from the island's
launching ramp when the storm developed."
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