Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
My reaction to: South Florida father heartbroken after losing wife, 2-year-old daughter in Margate lightning strike youtube.com/watch?v=GU64E6GTDj8
This is truly a sad story. CBS Miami reported that "A mother and her 2-year-old daughter were killed in a lightning strike over the weekend in Margate. CBS News Miami's Morgan Rynor heard from the devastated father and has the report.". Sending my condolences to the family and friends.
According to ChatGPT, "South Florida is one of the highest-risk areas for lightning in the United States. A typical person’s annual odds are still very low—roughly on the order of 1 in several hundred thousand to 1 in a million per year—but your situational risk can rise dramatically if you’re outdoors during a thunderstorm.
Florida consistently leads or is near the top of U.S. states for lightning activity and lightning fatalities. South Florida gets frequent thunderstorms, particularly during the May–October wet season, and the highest-risk situations are beaches, boats, golf courses, open fields, rooftops, pools, and being near isolated trees.
For perspective, the National Weather Service commonly uses about 1 in 1.2 million as the U.S.-wide annual chance of being struck, with lifetime odds around 1 in 15,000. Those aren't South-Florida-specific odds, though; someone who spends a lot of time outdoors in South Florida during thunderstorms has substantially greater exposure.
The important distinction is that lightning risk isn't evenly distributed across time. If you're outside in South Florida with an active thunderstorm nearby, the general annual statistic isn't very meaningful. That's when the risk becomes concentrated. If you can hear thunder, you're close enough to potentially be struck—even if it isn't raining where you are."
Link To Original Story: youtube.com/watch?v=GU64E6GTDj8
Credit to @CBSMiami
#florida #lightning #doorbellnews
My reaction to: South Florida father heartbroken after losing wife, 2-year-old daughter in Margate lightning strike youtube.com/watch?v=GU64E6GTDj8
This is truly a sad story. CBS Miami reported that "A mother and her 2-year-old daughter were killed in a lightning strike over the weekend in Margate. CBS News Miami's Morgan Rynor heard from the devastated father and has the report.". Sending my condolences to the family and friends.
According to ChatGPT, "South Florida is one of the highest-risk areas for lightning in the United States. A typical person’s annual odds are still very low—roughly on the order of 1 in several hundred thousand to 1 in a million per year—but your situational risk can rise dramatically if you’re outdoors during a thunderstorm.
Florida consistently leads or is near the top of U.S. states for lightning activity and lightning fatalities. South Florida gets frequent thunderstorms, particularly during the May–October wet season, and the highest-risk situations are beaches, boats, golf courses, open fields, rooftops, pools, and being near isolated trees.
For perspective, the National Weather Service commonly uses about 1 in 1.2 million as the U.S.-wide annual chance of being struck, with lifetime odds around 1 in 15,000. Those aren't South-Florida-specific odds, though; someone who spends a lot of time outdoors in South Florida during thunderstorms has substantially greater exposure.
The important distinction is that lightning risk isn't evenly distributed across time. If you're outside in South Florida with an active thunderstorm nearby, the general annual statistic isn't very meaningful. That's when the risk becomes concentrated. If you can hear thunder, you're close enough to potentially be struck—even if it isn't raining where you are."
Link To Original Story: youtube.com/watch?v=GU64E6GTDj8
Credit to @CBSMiami
#florida #lightning #doorbellnews
