In the United States, lightning is responsible for an average of 20 deaths each year, with hundreds more injured. Joe Kleefisch, a teacher at Rockford High School, may teach lessons in math, but 37 ...

Itching in her wrist. Piercing needles in her toenails and bruising bone aches. And the strangest one of all, a twisting in her right foot — where the lightning entered her body — like a ...

As the lightning moves towards the surface, it forces the RBCs out of the capillaries and into the epidermis causing these bruises. Third-Degree Burns The heat from the lightning can heat any ...

There were no .marks or bruises upon his person, but the horse-shoe was perfectly pictured upon his back. In 1841, a magistrate and a miller's Iwy were struck by lightning near a poplar tree ...