[Dwarvenforged]

In retrospect, should have countered the lighting bolt.

[KillingJoke]

Originally Posted by booboo2718 ↗

If you look at the video frame-by-frame you can see a trail of smoke from the sky directly to her then the lightning bolt follows that trail exactly. Weird. Anyone here know what's going on with that?

It's the formation of the plasma streamer. The electrical path of least resistance to ground starts, but is still at a very high resistance until the air becomes a plasma, forming the leader from the group up to the cloud, this plasma streamer is the visible high energy discharge.

Looking frame by frame, she was engulfed in a plasma ball for 160ms. I agree with those implying that much of the discharge would have been on the surface of her skin as she was wet with salt water, heart was possibly not stopped but fibrillating.

Note: with electro-convulsive treatment, the current is 0.8 amps, up to 450 volts. A lightening bolt is millions of volts, and thousands of amps, and it's "amps that kill".

Had someone performed immediate CPR, she might have lived.
And whoever saved her life would have likely gotten laid as a thank you, so, reason enough to take that CPR class, yo...

[tecumseh35]

Thought it was another beached whale for a second.