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[RC] Lightning - rides2far

Just before our little race for low ground yesterday, one of the other
riders told me about this incident below. Gave us more incentive to move
on. The woman who told me said they'd "taken cover" under a tree...always
a bad idea.  This happened at East Fork, a very popular area near Big
South Fork where many horse owners buy a vacation lot and take their
horses up for weekends. The website I found the clipping on was pretty
scary...called http://www.struckbylightning.org/news/dispIncidentdb.cfm
Glad I didn't get my name on it! 
Angie


07/01/2005  1 dead  0.0 M Jamestown Tennessee
USA  riding a horse  Horse,Outside 
An afternoon riding horses turns deadly when lightning strikes in
Fentress County. Authorities say five people were horseback riding at
East Fork Stables near Jamestown when the storm hit. Just before three
this afternoon, a bolt of lightning struck a tree, ran into the ground
and killed a man and two horses. The lightning knocked two other people
to the ground. No word on their conditions right now. Jennifer Geiger ,
Producer  
http://www.wbir.com/news/news.aspx?storyid=26943&provider=rss
sbl20050207061847_news.aspx_storyid=26943_provider=rss 




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