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FACT: Men are more likely to be struck by lightning. Men are four times as likely to be killed by lightning as women. Although there haven’t been any studies on the topic, a good guess is that perhaps men are more likely to be employed in outdoor jobs such as roofing, are more likely to engage in outdoor recreation like hiking or golfing, and are less likely to quickly seek shelter because they don’t want to look like a sissy. I asked my husband, who was outside watering the hanging plants during the last thunderstorm, why he thought men were at greater risk. He said “Bolts, volts and dolts are a bad combination.”

http://www.ourbetternature.org/lightning2.htm

Is lightning sexist?

Lightning seems to be picky about what it hits. Some studies suggest that it preferentially strikes oaks trees over other species. And it certainly is sexist, striking and killing men far more often than women. In Great Britain over a two decade period, 85% of lightning fatalities were men. In a recent study of Florida lightning fatalities, 87% of the persons struck by lightning were males. Before suspecting a plot by radical feminists, note that while 34% of the males struck by lightning were killed, 44% of the females struck died. GO TO TOP

Take cover immediately...

During severe thunderstorms and tornadoes lashing the Huntsville, AL area in February 1995, National Weather Service staff were on television warning people of the dangerous storm conditions. Just then, the weather office took a direct lightning hit a fire started, and the weather radar was knocked off the air.

http://sky-fire.tv/index.cgi/lightning.html#sexist

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