Improve Lightning Survival By Wetting Clothes?
Posted by Category: pocket survival, survival in the wilderness, survival shelterA Minnesota man survives being struck by lightning, and doctors say it was likely his wet clothes that saved him. Kent Lilyerd was passing in and out of conscious for close to two hours!
Doctors believe the jolt did not pass through Lilyerd’s body because of the wet clothes. To make matters even worse, he was wearing a red baseball cap with a metal button on top and work boots with… you guessed it, steel tips! It is believed the lightning started at the top of the cap and came back for a second round through his boots.
If that doesn’t sound like your idea of fun, for the ultimate in pocket survival… Lilyerd even had a bullet in his pocket which oddly was not set off!
via Daily Dirt
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