One killed, another severely injured in lightning strike in Prachin Buri

[snoop1130]

One killed, another severely injured in lightning strike in Prachin Buri

By The Nation

 

 

A man was killed and another severely injured when their hut in Prachin Buri’s Kabin Buri district was struck by lightning Sunday night, police said.

 

A local foundation was called at 9.20pm to send an ambulance to pick up two people injured by a lightning strike in Ban Nong Bua village, in Tambon Nonsee.

 

The victims were identified on Monday as Kriangkrai Somngamsa-ard and Monruedee Phiewphan, both aged 31. 

 

Kriangkrai later died at Kabin Buri Hospital, where Monruedee is being treated for severe injuries.

 

Monruedee’s uncle, Withoon, who asked for his surname to be withheld, said his niece had rented the land to raise goats and a make-shift hut had been put up for the family to stay there. 

 

He said five relatives had been staying at the hut.

 

The lightning had struck when Kriangkria and Monruedee were using their smartphones, Withoon added.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30370067

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2019-05-27

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[RotBenz8888]

4 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The lightning had struck when Kriangkria and Monruedee were using their smartphones, Withoon added.

Please read the official Thai science book for university students, page 435: "DON'T ever use a smartphone during a storm, the lightning will get sucked in to your phone and kill you."

[bluesofa]

3 hours ago, RotBenz8888 said:

Please read the official Thai science book for university students, page 435: "DON'T ever use a smartphone during a storm, the lightning will get sucked in to your phone and kill you."

I just can't see the 'attraction'.

[e&j]

media distorting a tragedy again without looking into the facts and explaining...and the locals will obviously believe it..... what the.
How about some truth.
At any given moment, there are approximately 2,000 thunderstorms occurring in the world, resulting in about 100 lightning strikes every second. Lightning is caused by clouds that are electrically charged. Typically the top of a cloud is positively charged whereas the bottom is negatively charged. This causes a positive charge to build up on the ground beneath the cloud. The grounds electrical charge concentrates around anything that sticks up, such as mountains, people, or single trees, or of course, lightning arresters. The charge coming up from these points eventually connects with a charge reaching down from the clouds, resulting in a lightning strike.

The claim that mobile phones are a risk when used in a storm is misleading. If a person is standing out in the open and a positive charge builds around him, when the potential is just right, there will be a lightning strike - whether he is talking on a cellphone or not.

The concern that mobile phones attract lightning was first raised a number of years ago in an internet hoax and is now a recognized urban myth. According to safety authorities, people who are outside increase their risk of being struck if they are on high ground, or in an open space, or near a body water or near large metallic structures or trees. These factors are more important to safety in an electrical storm than the use of a mobile phone. Mobile phones are low power devices and do not have any characteristics which would make them attractive to lightning strikes. Nowadays, nearly everyone carries a mobile-phone, and so it is blamed when anyone is struck by lightning.

Contrary to the belief that the metal components of cell phones and portable media players make users of such devices targets in thunderstorms, lightning is most attracted to the tallest objects in a given area that provide the quickest and easiest path to the ground. The reason trees are so often struck is because they’re usually the tallest potential conductors in a given area.

Whilst on the subject, I would like to mention that landlines are not safe when a thunderstorm is in progress. This is because, hundreds of kilometers of wire is in the open, connecting to the landline at home - and if there is a lightning strike anywhere, the current may travel through the telephone cables and reach the instrument to which it is connected. If no one is using the instrument at that time, the instrument or the circuitry inside may get fried; but if someone is using the instrument - there are chances that the person may get severely burnt by the high voltage appearing at the instrument and going to ground. Since it is not a direct hit, the current being distributed unevenly, it forces the bulk of the current to flow through the outer surface or skin giving rise to the phenomena called skin effect


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