bizarre Soccer players zapped by lightning

[LET'S GORE !]

What actually happens when lightning hits the ground, especially not very conductive ground is it "skips" along the ground along the path of least resistance until it loses it's mojo. It can be one or several directions. These guys just happened to be standing in line of that particular path

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https://www.nairaland.com/866874/lightning-kills-entire-football-team/2

 

[lechmich]

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https://www.nairaland.com/866874/lightning-kills-entire-football-team/2

Oooh ahhh thats a collection of scientists

 

[qdeng1]

Now they can supercharge their shots

 

[JawshSB]

This may come as a shock to you... Storm clouds are capable of producing more than one bolt of lightning per their existence.

for the same area, it takes a while for charged particles in the air to produce enough voltage to induce another lightning stike, so if you want to get technical they have 5 to 10 minutes of safety before another strike in that area may occur

 

[Orange_Squirrel]

A few things happened in about one second.

The initial lightning strike victim was directly struck at 0:02 on the videos timeline. You can see a brief moment of flames that appear on the person directly struck. This person is more than likely dead.

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Once the electricity from the lightning strike passed through the initial victim the lightning entered the ground, the electricity became 'ground current'.

As the electricity (ground current) travels through the earth away from the initial strike location, the organic material in the earth provides resistance. This resistance decreases the amount of electricity and at some point the electrons are absorbed and the ground current ends. This resistance combined with each victims distance from the initial strike and the amount of ground contact produced through the soles of their shoes touching the earth, varied for each person. Someone people at the edge of the end of the ground current may feel a little 'tingle'.

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You can use Ohm's Law to calculate how 'electrocuted' a person will become from ground current based on their distance from the initial strike. Here is a Research Gate article showing how much 'dead' you will be based on distance.

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Did I just get an education on Goregrish '😐

 

[Grand Mal Caesar]

for the same area, it takes a while for charged particles in the air to produce enough voltage to induce another lightning stike, so if you want to get technical they have 5 to 10 minutes of safety before another strike in that area may occur

Interesting. Didn't know that about ground strikes. That would explain the lack of immediate follow up strikes.

 

[phenomrm]

What caused some of the others to fall over? It didn't seem to affect everyone equally...

Field is wet. When lightning strikes water, the charge spreads across the surface, and can travel up to 100 meters or more.

 

[ImAlwaysBaked]

The one who got the direct zap is not having a good time 🤣

 

[Tuomas Woorhees]

That was fixed game. Someone called a God.