AI6YR BenInteresting, lightning strike in Superior, Colorado, woman was unidentified because she had no ID and their phone was toasted. (critical condition, now ID'd).
https://www.denverpost.com/2026/04/11/woman-struck-lightning-superior/
Paul Chambers🚧@ai6yr I hope she pulls through. I got struck by lightning and survived. My cell phone was destroyed. She is in for a few weird things. I haven't been able to sleep in the dark since for some odd reason.
A short thread about it, last post has cw exit wound scars
@ai6yr sorry , reposted so the link is a quote post...
@ai6yr It is in my family. In the one thread in 2nd post I talk about my grandfather and uncle
@paul Also interesting on the wound responding to the atmosphere. I mean, I know that happens with people with arthritis etc. but hadn't heard about it with scars before (but makes perfect sense to me!)
@ai6yr not sure why it happens. For what it is worth, the entry wound has never fully healed and it has been forever and a week since it happened
@paul I had a relative with wound healing issues, it's apparently a whole medical specialty to figuring those out. (I know there is some research on honey being used for those cases, which I only know because of beekeeping. Reputedly only certain kinds of honey, but I suspect probably many kinds...).
sadele2@paul @ai6yr
Gretel Ehrlich wrote book “A Match to the Heart” after struck by lightning twice: once it came up thru legs of horse she was riding, 2nd time direct hit to the back while walking when thunderstorm coming over Wyoming mtn was abt 3 miles away. Knocked out body’s elec system, cldnt pump blood back to heart. 2 more books abt going to Greenland, needed to stay nr sea level to avoid angina but wanted to see alpine plants 1/2
Gretel Ehrlich wrote book “A Match to the Heart” after struck by lightning twice: once it came up thru legs of horse she was riding, 2nd time direct hit to the back while walking when thunderstorm coming over Wyoming mtn was abt 3 miles away. Knocked out body’s elec system, cldnt pump blood back to heart. 2 more books abt going to Greenland, needed to stay nr sea level to avoid angina but wanted to see alpine plants 1/2
Ehrlich wrote going to convention/meeting for ppl who’d survived lightning or electrical shock. Don’t t know if this was the organization but if you’ve not been in touch someone there may help with info on your wound. Meeting upcoming in May in Tennessee. https://www.lightning-strike.org/
Jenny@ai6yr Boulder County Sheriffs Office also said that, in addition to not having ID and her phone being fried, she suffered physical trauma that would make photo identification challenging (to my knowledge, he did not elaborate further, but was responding to people asking why they weren’t sharing her picture with the public to help with identification). So it sounds pretty bad, I do hope she pulls through. Lightning is a real danger in Colorado, this could happen to any of us.