A 51-year-old man was struck and killed by lightning in Northern Colorado on Saturday afternoon, the Jackson County Sheriff's Office said on Sunday.
A 51-year-old man and almost three dozen cows were struck and killed by lightning in Northern Colorado on Saturday afternoon, the Jackson County Sheriff's Office said on Sunday.The Jackson County Coroner's Office identified the man as Mike Morgan and said 34 of his cows were also killed in that strike.A sheriff's office spokeswoman said Morgan was killed while feeding his cattle in the town of Rand, about 120 miles northwest of Denver.
Lightning strikes the ground approximately 40 million times each year, but your chance of being struck in any given year is around one in a million and about 90% of people struck by lightning survive, according to the CDC.The National Weather Service, however, says that any given person's odds of being struck in their lifetime is about one in 15,000, according to data it collected from 2009 to 2018.Between 1989 and 2018, the U.S.
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