Storms
BBCTue, 21 Aug 2007 12:29 UTC
Overnight storms led to flooding in Kent, road closures, and major railway disruption for commuters during the morning rush hour.
Kent fire crews received more than 70 calls after the floods. In Canterbury, the council delivered sandbags to 30 homes and pumped water from a car park.
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Southeastern railway services were hit by cancellations after lightning hit a signal box in the Folkestone area.
And roads were closed in Dover, Hawkinge, and Alkham, Kent Police said.
A woman who was to serve as the matron of honor at her best friend's wedding was struck by lightning and killed during the rehearsal dinner on the eve of the ceremony.
Cindy Osler, 45, had gone outside the restaurant with the best man Friday night to check their car windows when she was hit by a bolt of lightning in this central New Jersey town.
Lightning strikes have killed 306 villagers in China over the past three weeks as severe weather continues to batter the countryside, the Xinhua news agency said Friday.
Heavy rains have already unleashed numerous mudslides and floods in southern and central China, with damage estimated in the billions of dollars.
All the victims have been rural residents, and 79% of them were killed while working in the fields.
The carcasses of 12 cattle were airlifted from a valley in southern Austria after they were killed by a lightning storm.
APSun, 29 Jul 2007 20:46 UTC
Lightning can strike twice. Just ask Don Frick.
Frick says he survived his second lightning strike Friday - 27 years to the day of his first - and emerged a bit shaken, with only a burned zipper and a hole in the back of his jeans.
Deaths from floods, lightning and landslides across China this summer have reached nearly 700, state media said on Monday, with experts warning that global warming is likely to fuel more violent weather.
Over the weekend alone, fierce storms and hail killed 17 people across four provinces.
TVNZSun, 29 Jul 2007 09:00 UTC
Lightning strikes have killed 403 people in China so far this year, equalling the total number of deaths from lightning in the whole of last year, the China Meteorological Administration said.
The administration attributed the higher rate of deaths to more frequent and severe lightning storms, Xinhua news agency reported.
Five South Koreans were killed by lightning in mountains near the capital on Sunday, while six other climbers were injured, KBS news said.
Two men and two women were struck and killed near a hill at Bukhan Mountain, northeast of Seoul, when heavy rains swept through the area, the report said, citing police and rescue workers.
9 NewsSat, 28 Jul 2007 22:06 UTC
Morrison, Colorado - The name of a man believed to have been struck and killed by lightning while jogging in Matthews Winters Park in Morrison Friday, has yet to be released.
The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office and the Foothills Fire Department say the man, who is believed to be around 20 years old, was struck in the park around 6 p.m. The park is along Highway 93 near I-70 north of Red Rocks.
Lightning struck a diver's oxygen tank as he surfaced off Florida's Atlantic coast, killing him, authorities said.
The 36-year-old man was diving with three others Sunday off a boat near Deerfield Beach, about 40 miles north of Miami. He had surfaced about 30 feet from the boat when lightning struck his tank, said Deerfield Beach Fire Chief Gary Fernaays.
The other divers struggled to get the man back into the boat and radioed for help, Fernaays said. The victim, whose name was not immediately released, was rushed to the beach, where a rescue crew gave him CPR. He was later pronounced dead at North Broward Medical Center in Pompano Beach.
