Nature's Anger: Lightning Struck Nudists As They Bath On A Florida Beach

by Benson Agoha | via Andy Wells Blog

Someone once said that Nature has its way of controlling human excesses - and it seems it sure does not lack in ways to vent its anger or is it `nature's admonition?.'

Lightening struck down three bathers  on a nudist beach in Florida.
(Credit: via Andy Wells Blog)

There has been reports of volcanic eruptions, floods and much floods which in recent have acquired a new name `tsunami', there are also earthquakes, avalanches, mudslides and many other ways that humans don't as yet understand.

We even have shark attacks, which have been rather rampant in recent days, there are reports of seagulls and hawks swooning down on unsuspecting persons and pecking on them and their pets.

But lightening striking beach goers have been rare and largely unreported. Not any more, because according to a blogger, Any Wells beach goers have become victims of lightening strikes, which saw three injured and rushed to the hospital.

It is the location that is of interest. According to the blogger, the lightening struck America's largest NUDE beach and thr three men were rushed to the hospital. 

"The bolt hit Haulover Beach in Miami-Dade County, Florida, in the middle of the afternoon, knocking two men who were in the water unconscious," he wrote, adding "A third man who was on the shore went into cardiac arrest."

It was not the first time because as the account went on, Lieutenant Matthew Sparling, from the MDFR Ocean Rescue, revealed that they had just closed the beach because of an earlier lightning strike when another bolt struck. The injuries from the strike was blamed on the electricity from the lightning bolt.

Nudist bathing in a Nudist beach when lightening struck.
(Credit: via Andy Wells Blog)

He explained: “We were in the process of clearing the area when the strike occurred. The lighting had dissipated throughout the water so the lightning strike wasn’t a direct hit. It was more hitting the water and electricity traveled through the water.”

Andy quoted an eyewitness on the beach saying he did not realise anyone was injured at first.

He told WSVN: “It looked like people were just relaxing in the water and I thought to myself, ‘Why are people just hanging out in the water after that happened?’

“But they were really kind of paralysed. They couldn’t move, and then there was some guy face down in the water.”

Two of the victims were hospitalised and are expected to recover, while the third was treated at a nearby trauma centre.

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*by Benson Agoha (Source: Andy Well's Blog | Lead: Yahoo News).