Hopedale hunters struck by lightning 1-11-20

Yikes.. accidents happen. But lightning is something i dont play with

If you are in a but and are say under a train bridge, would it be safer to stay there are make a run for it?

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Hopedale hunters struck by lightning 1-11-20

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Well my story is a fishing trip in the marsh southwest Louisiana. Storm came in and we could not make it back to the launch before it hit. Ended up pulling the boat up on the levee on the Intracoastal and laying down on our backs. My Gawd I had no idea the standard lighting bolt could have 1000 leaders spitting out of the bolt. The sound and flash were simultaneous repeatedly. But I survived. I was also fishing Toledo Bend in my youth when a storm moved in suddenly. There was a big clap of thunder and we shagged it. About an hour later a hearse came and picked up a woman who was struck about a quarter of a mile from where we were fishing.

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hunters struck by lightning 1-11-20 by tenfoe
9x more people die from lightning than a venomous snake in the U.S. Hunters often go around worrying about the wrong thing.

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and probably 30 x more likely to die in atv crash or on way to hunt.

I was fishing once as a storm was rolling in, fish were biting. Was gonna stretch it close as I could but the air become so electrically charged that when I would pick the tip of my rod up toward the sky it would start humming. I said nope and GTFO