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bonobo
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 Posted: 09/15/04 - 11:56 Post subject: Lightning Injures 40 Texas Football Players, Coaches
Leave it to Texans to do it b-i-g BIG. link
| AP wrote: | GRAPELAND, Texas -- About 40 players and coaches with the Grapeland High School football team in East Texas were hurt when the lightning struck as they finished up practice Tuesday evening.
Twenty high school football players have been hospitalized from injuries. Another 20 players and coaches from Grapeland High School also were hurt.
Superintendent Buddy Sumrall told The Associated Press that one of the players was in guarded condition after being taken to a burn center in Galveston. Nineteen others were spending the night in hospitals under observation.
Sumrall described the incident as "a freak thing." He said it started raining as the players were running sprints and the team was preparing to head for their locker room when the lightning struck. He said no previous lightning had been seen.
Police Chief Roger Dickey said there were thunderstorms in nearby towns, but that they hadn't yet reached Grapeland when the strike occurred. He said coaches and players had no warning.
The force of the electrical charge was powerful enough to knock players down -- or backward several feet. |
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rolling rock
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Posted: 09/15/04 - 11:59 Post subject:
wow, that is scary.
we lost a friend playing softball when lighting struck him -- out of nowhere. really makes me think about my daughter playing on those open fields under stormy icky looking skies. 
glad no one was killed there. 
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elkid
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Posted: 09/15/04 - 11:59 Post subject:
How shocking!
* ba dum bump *
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duathlon
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Posted: 09/15/04 - 11:59 Post subject:
H s**t... I goota be careful of rain now. If I got hit, I would do my fastest mile ever... 
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coachmarkos
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Posted: 09/15/04 - 12:05 Post subject:
having read "Friday Night Lights"
Texas High School football fans, are probably most happy that it happened at the end of practice, so they didn't waste the practice. 
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cherylpf
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Posted: 09/15/04 - 12:06 Post subject:
Okay, its a scary story and I hope everyone recovers from their injuries, its amazing no one was killed...I am sympathetic to the story, but...
My roommate and I were watching the news last night when they showed this story, they obviously only had a few still photos from the incident, one of which looked like a ford truck ad. I just did a search and I can't find it, but it was of this brand new shiny silver F-150 square in the focus of the shot, then behind this nice truck in the distance some people receiving some medical attention. They showed that picture 2-3 times during the story. We were cracking up because you know somewhere in east Texas (ie, west louisiana) there is some 16 year old kid out there somewhere like "WHOOP! That is MY truck on TV!"
maybe it was only funny to those of us who know or are related to kids like this
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bburgoyne26
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Posted: 09/15/04 - 16:46 Post subject:
I think that was a message from God.....east Texas is deep in the heart of the bible belt....they musta been doing sumpin bad bad bad......that'll learn em! 
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genie
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Posted: 09/15/04 - 17:16 Post subject:
| rolling rock wrote: | wow, that is scary.
we lost a friend playing softball when lighting struck him -- out of nowhere. really makes me think about my daughter playing on those open fields under stormy icky looking skies.
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....and us WATCHING under said stormy icky skies 
My roomie's cousin got hit by lightning once, fortunately he lived to tell about it. Now he's a Baptist minister.
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