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Offline SlowModem

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Fatal bolt
« on: July 24, 2015, 11:59:10 PM »
I saw this in the news a little while ago:

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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities say a lightning strike has killed seven people, including four children, in a rural part of central Mexico.

The Guanajuato state Department of Public Safety reports that two more people were hurt by the Friday afternoon strike, though their lives were not in danger.

The incident took place in farming country near the towns of Mesa Cuata and El Terrero, about a 25-mile (40-kilometer) drive from the city of Queretaro.
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Re: Fatal bolt
« Reply #1 on: July 25, 2015, 09:02:43 AM »
That is a mountainous area, according to Google Earth.

We visited Guanajuato back in the '90's on a vacation, which is not far from where these towns are. We didn't visit either of these two places, which look like they are pretty rural.

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Re: Fatal bolt
« Reply #2 on: July 25, 2015, 10:52:07 AM »
Hate hearing about children being killed.
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