Ep 93 Lightning & Other Stories: Power Hour (and a Half)
This Podcast Will Kill You
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What Are the Effects of Lightning Strikes?
lightning strikes can cause autonomic instability, which means like your autonomic nervous system is the part of your body that controls all our involuntary actions. It's also thought that during flash over the current can actually re enter our body through our eyes and our nose, which can then cause ocular damage like cataracts. And then of course, you can have drama from falls, from being blasted away, or from shrapnel from a tree, et cetera. So there's a lot of different ways that lightning can harm youyes.
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