what are the odds of being struck by lightning twice?
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it happens more frequently then you think. lightening often strikes the same place
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Lightning can be any color. It is reflected off things that are near it, so it could be any color.
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Double rainbows are a rarity.\n\n\n\n\n \nThe Double Rainbow\n\n \n\n\nEvery once in a while, if you get lucky, you may see a second rainbow on the outside of the first, brighter rainbow. This is the "secondary rainbow" which occurs when raindrops high in the atmosphere refract and reflect light back to the viewer. \n\nThese raindrops are higher than those which cause the "primary rainbow" and are special because they internally reflect the incoming sunlight twice rather than just once. \n\n\n\nNotice that the sunlight hits the bottom of the raindrop to make the secondary rainbow. There is still sunlight hitting the other parts of the raindrop, however, some of the light is simply transmitted through the raindrop without reflecting, and some light is reflected and refracted, but not into our eyes: that light is for someone else's rainbow. \n\nNotice also in the image at the top of the page that the sequence of colors in the secondary rainbow is switched compared to the primary bow. Why is this? \n\n\n\n\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Skyscrapers are prone to lightning strikes that could cause damage if not safely conducted to ground.  The mast on the Empire State Building in NYC is apt to be struck more than once in a single storm.  The grounding system must be operable at all times therefore it is unlikely that the lightning that is grounded could be put to useful work.  Also, the lightning voltage is highly variable and may be as strong as 6,000 Volts.  Electric charge dissipated to ground on a clear day would also be lost.  Incidentally, the sky may have both positive and negatively charged clouds since lightning strikes from cloud-to-cloud are common.  Charge is a relative thing.  Airplanes are also struck while passing between clouds and must be able to conduct electrical surges across movable airfoils to avoid welding hinges in a fixed position.  Conducting cables or straps are used in some applications.\n\nAdded 12/21/05.  Actually atmospheric charge does cause a current to ground and also along a power transmission line, especially as a result of sunspots and ionization of air.  An electrical engineer buddy told me that it was a great nusiance affecting global communication by cable and causing power grid outages.  I imagine that the power could be arrested and utilized but is not cost effective or steady enough to count on.  Still someone may find a way.  As you say it is free although the equipment may be costly.  Good luck.
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The Empire State Building in New York City gets hit by lightning at least 100 times a year.
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Yes, the odds are 50-50, more or less.  That's the same as it was the first time.
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A Center for Disease Control report found that the threat of lightning strikes increases with the amount of time spent outdoors.  Another report in the Journal of Environmental Health found that a greater number of lightning strikes occur in work related activities.  The industries with the highest number of lightning strikes were agriculture and construction, fields of work dominated by males.\n\nThis would seem to indicate that there is less of a biological reason for men being hit by lightning more often and more of a social reason.  Men tend to have outdoor jobs at a much higher percentage than women and thus are more likely to be in a position to be hit by lightning.
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Slim to none, but happens.\n\nAlthough, people who have been struck once are more likely to be hit again.  \n\nI had a teacher who had been struck a total of 4 times.  He had tunnel vision, his backbones were fused together, among other things.\n\nI also know someone who can feel if she is about to be struck.  There have been multiple times she has felt "wired" during a storm.  She jumped and a second later lightning struck were she had been standing.
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I have heard that before too, but as a meteorologist...I can say I have never found any scientific basis for that theory.\n\nHowever, I was working for the National Weather Service about 20 years ago when I got struck.  After I returned to work, all the staff gave me a hard time about that fact that now that I had been struck once, I was more likely to be struck again.\n\nAfter my stint with NWS, I was a storm chaser for 10 years, and in those 10 years I never even came close.  In fact, in the last 20 years I have come close only once...and that was because I was stupid enough to be standing next to an outside light fixture as a thunderstorm was moving through.
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Actually it is the other way around.  Since light travels faster than sound, you *see* lightning before you *hear* the accompanying thunder.\n\nLight travels at about 186,000 miles per *second*\nSound travels at about 760 miles per *hour*.  This works out to about 1/5 of a mile per second (0.2114... miles per second)\n\nSo if you count the time between when you see the lightning (almost instantaneously) and the time until you hear the lightning, then divide by 5, you can get a rough estimate of how far away to where the lightning is striking.\n\nIf the difference is 25 seconds, it is 5 miles away.  If it is 5 seconds, it is 1 mile away.  If it happens at the same time as the lightning... good luck!
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The statement has little to actually do with lightning, especially these days.  It really applies to human nature and events.\n\nBefore the advent of tall buildings and lightning rods, it was rare for lightning to strike the same location twice; there were many likely targets.  While it could happen, it was outside the daily experience of most people, and back then, that's about all they had to work with.  \n\nThe statement came to mean any event that rarely happened twice to the same person or group; like a previous poster said, winning the lottery twice, or any other event that's rare enough the first time, and extremely unlikely the second.
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Lightning seldoms strikes twice. Liverpool's team had a generous dose of luck in their triumph of 2005.\nThese things even out, I'm sure Lady Luck will favour someone else this season.
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There are four ways a person can get injured from lightning: a direct strike, "splashes" (when the lightning bounces off something and strikes you), ground strikes (when lightning strikes the ground and then you conduct the electricity), and EMP waves (i don't know what this is). You have a 1 in 3000 chance of being hurt by lightning, and a surge protector lowers that odds even more. So according to the fact that chances are pretty low, I'd say it's safe to stay on the computer.
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Lightning in snow falls is very rare but it does happen.
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As soon as you see the flash of lightning, start counting, when you hear the boom of thunder, that is how many miles apart each is from each other.  Such as:  you see lightning, you count to 10 and hear the thunder.  Then the lightning and thunder are 10 miles apart.
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You might find this interesting,about how lightning works \nand the myths about how/what it strikes\n\nhttp://www.wvlightning.com/lmwn3.shtml
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I think I have seen three to four at one time. I just depends on the conditions after a storm.