There's a statistical remark, "you're more likely to be struck by lightning." It usually means the odds are so small, it may as well be insignificantly small. Then, you see a headline where somebody actually gets hit by one and you think... "Oh boy."
Winthrop Baptist College social studies teacher Gregory Crombie, 41, and 19-year-old Thomas McGuinness, died after the group was caught in an electrical storm in Khon Kaen province late yesterday.So there you go. You're a perfectly healthy 41y.o. dude on a trip, and bang, a lightning strikes and you're a goner. No time for midlife crises. What is that but an 'Act of God'?
Three Thai nationals also died after being struck by lightning, but the college says they were not with the Winthrop college student group sightseeing at the waterfall.
Mr Crombie's sister-in-law Thongsom Paggangwaesang told local media the group had been swimming at the waterfall when the storm hit at Mukdahan, 642km from Bangkok.
She said two bolts of lightning struck and several people collapsed.
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