New York Man Said He Was Struck by Lightning While Working Inside Rochester Office Nick Gemayel was inside his office at the auto shop he owns in Rochester when a lightning bolt struck the sidewalk outside the garage and then traveled inside the building, he told WHEC.com. Inside the garage, electrical wiring was fried and Gemayel was injured, taken to the hospital and released a day later, the report added. "My muscles started contracting and tensing," Gemayel told WHEC. "And very foggy thinking. I started to feel very strange. Then my hand started to blister … You don't feel like yourself." AutoWerks manager Ryan Davis was standing outside the garage when the lightning bolt struck the sidewalk and the building, but he told the Associated Press he wasn't injured. "It was just a big, bold, flash-boom, and then I turned around and went the other way," Davis told WHEC. "I didn't want to get any closer to it." Gemayel said he plans to take a few days off from work and then will begin to make repairs on the business's damaged wiring. While taking shelter from a thunderstorm can be a life-saving decision, additional steps can be taken to avoid a lightning strike. NOAA recommends staying off phones, computers or other electronics during the storm, and avoid plumbing, as electricity can travel through water. https://weather.com/news/news/rochester-man-lightning-strike-office-nick-gemayel My mother took a hit from our kitchen faucet when lighting struck right outside the house Also, a friend of mine had it hit his house and travel around the walls in the wires and the carpet tack boards. He said that magnetic field from the current traveling through the carpet tack boards lifted all the nails out of the floor. There was a guy in Los Angeles who in was in bed sleeping when lighting entered through on wall, made a U-turn in the his bedroom, and went back out the same wall. The news station had video of the two blackened holes in the wall. The path the lightning had taken through the room was clear from the burn marks. Quite amazing! This poor guy gets hit twice in about a minute!
There is also an kid in a stereotypical Indian outfit, pointing a bow and arrow at a star. That image was used in contests and/or promotions
Not all the wrappers are the same either. My two favorites are the kid in the number 3 soap box car and the kids playing marbles.
With only a week before their first printing, Stag Magazine found they were using a name already used by another magazine company. The second in command, 2 of 3 people that comprised the entire staff, remembered a defunct car company that his mother had worked for some years ago. The name was perfect and became legendary.
People with sickle cell anemia are immune to malaria. If you get sickle cell anemia, you will likely live well past your most active reproductive years. But not so with malaria. So in countries with high rates of malaria, sickle cell anemia provided an advantage for reproductive success. It is a biologically successful variant.
I miss the racing terms which we lost in Aust with the change to metric measures. An eight furlong race sounds more interesting than 1000 metres. Three miles sounds better than 3200 metres.
I agree. Furlongs is far more poetic. And depth should always be measured in leagues Far less poetic but numerically appealing is the long-lost standard mass - the slug. Your mass in slugs is 1/32 of your weight in pounds.
Two miles is 3200 metres! What was I thinking. What is a metric horse? In metric hands? 10 centimetres translates to a hand. Do you know where the term furlong came from?
A metric horse is a horse that won't fit in a standard stall. Where did the term furlong come from? I know the knot literally results from knots on a rope.
Furrow long. Knots is good- better than miles per hour. According to a reliable source, an acre is a furlong by 66 feet(one chain).
HAH! I didn't know that. One acre is 43,560 sq feet. A furlong is 660 feet. A chain is 66 feet. One chain times one furlong is 43,560 sq feet, or one acre. I like that! And a furlong is 10 chains.
When dealing with 43,560 square feet, you can understand the appeal of metrics to surveyors. Funny, the recurrence of sixes.
Do you remember the term for an area of land which a man could walk around in one day(I think he had to mark it with a rock at each corner) ?
I find it is helpful to do my taxes in hexadecimal [base 16] rather than decimal [base 10]. That way, if I make 100K in decimal, I only have to report a little over 18K in hexadecimal. Nothing in the tax code specifies that base ten be used. I have long wondered what would happen if I actually tried to make that argument in court. But I AM joking.
My favourites as far as making me laugh are - Eating a pice of sellery consumes more calories than the sellery itself contains. - No one can sneeze with their eyes open. - If a duck quacks in a cave there will be no echo and no one knows why.
