Tag: International Lightning Safety Day
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Assessing Lightning’s Potential for Catastrophic Risk is Key for Building Lightning Safe Communities
FORT PIERCE, Fla. — Those familiar with New York’s “Darkest Hours” likely remember the mayhem of the city’s July 13, 1977 blackout. But few may be able to recall it was lightning (three sequential strikes), which caused the catastrophic event that shut down one of the world’s largest cities in a matter of minutes, says…