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Coach McGuirk Coach McGuirk OP
Jul 27, 2026 at 10:22 AM ET
88,000 bolts of lightning hit Florida yesterday. Good day for golf.

12 Replies

Newt Newt
Not wise.
I can tell you, based on personal and painful experience, you don't want to eff with the lightning. It's not fun.
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MikeVT85
Shocking I say!
PhotoHokieNC PhotoHokieNC
I thought you meant from 2 executions at FL Bureau of Prisons
or whatever it's called there. That's incredible lightning - maybe they clubhouse grill could be renamed "Ol' Sparky".
Freddyburg Hokie Freddyburg Hokie
88 (mph), a bolt of lightning....1.21 GIGAWATTS!
TBF, it looks decent where he is. Probably was just hearing distant booms, before that one happened, and caused him to scurry off. It's not like he had time to react before that picture was taken. And I know damn sure that if that was me, I'd have that photo hanging on the wall at home. And at the office. ** Edited by Freddyburg Hokie at 7/27/2026, 12:42:08 PM
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OrlandoHokie
Maybe the fountain of youth is in FL. Lightning is time travels friend
Maybe we should all be driving Delorean's here in FL with flux capacitors installed and cables attached to our clock towers. Just get that old guy from the Great Outdoors to stand on the side walk next to the street and clock tower and harnass the strike to a Delorean.
vt90 vt90
Eh - its a 3-iron. Not even God can hit a 3-iron.
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turkeywinghokie
I think the joke is a 1-iron
which not ever sure is made anymore. Lord knows I can't hit any of them regardless of the numbere haha
Brown Water Brown Water
I have to admit I've been that guy a time or two. Not a good feeling.
Coach McGuirk Coach McGuirk OP
Do you have graphite shafts? I know that is a good conductor. My brother-
-in-law's brother told me a story about a time he was on a pier in the OBX with his graphite fishing rod. A storm was blowing up, and he turned to look at the kid next to him, and the kid's hair was standing straight up on his head. He figured it was time to get out of there. I still laugh.
Brown Water Brown Water
I do remember the hair on my arms standing up once. Followed by the loudest
clap of thunder I've ever heard. And that was the end of that. ** Edited by Brown Water at 7/27/2026, 1:32:51 PM
Freddyburg Hokie Freddyburg Hokie
Ref at the BCA game said he felt the hairs on the back of his neck rise...
as he was holding up his arm to signal the kickoff. This was right as the lighting turned Corso's car into a smoking hole in the ground.
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jdkhokie
"I don't think the heavy stuff's gonna come down for quite a while."