This conversation reminds me of the time I was bitten by a dog while riding. The town insisted I get my tetanus booster updated, so I went to the dr. He took out what looked to me like an enormous needle, so before he stuck me with it I said, wait a minute what are my chances of getting tetanus from this dog bite. He replied, almost none, but if you do get it you die. I got the shot.
For me, even if I escaped the lightning, I would not escape the wrath of wife. She has demanded that whenever I hear thunder I am to seek shelter and call her immediately. We argued about this but I got in the last words: "Yes dear." Michael On Jun 9, 12:38 am, Mojo <gjtra...@yahoo.com> wrote: > John, on any given garden-variety thunderstorm, the chances of being > struck are extremely low. (This not true for vigorous storms, that can > produce amazing and terrifying amounts of lightning strikes, along > with other dangers that Joel described.) But to get struck by > lightning has devastating consequenceshttp://www.harkphoto.com/light.html > Simple risk analysis would suggest that it is not perfectly rational > to ignore small probabilities with huge consequences. The idea behind > this post was to give folks some information to make informed > decisions. > > On Jun 7, 3:27 pm, John Ferguson <rfj1...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > > Oh please, I think most perfectly rational people ride right through > > thunderstorms rather than cowering in a ditch as soon as they hear > > thunder....I mean really, what are the chances of being struck? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
