Flip-flops save woman from lightning strike


	Flip-flops save woman from lightning strike

Hawkeye_84

8-16-2007 11:21 AM

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beach wear, flip-flops, sandals, lightning

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8-16-2007 11:38 AM

wurdzgurl

This is beautiful! I love my flip flops!

8-16-2007 12:25 PM

BartendingBear

The science in this is so wrong in so many ways that... it leaves me speechless.

8-16-2007 4:10 PM

Hawkeye_84

WG: And you have great feet to wear them on.

BB: I wondered about that as well. Seems it's more of a miracle than the fact that she was wearing flip flops.

8-16-2007 4:15 PM

skwirlinator

The science in this is so wrong in so many ways that... it leaves me speechless.

Ditto

Seems it's more of a miracle than the fact that she was wearing flip flops.

Seems more of an urban legend than a true accounting of the facts

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