Wednesday, June 25, 2025

Man on Honeymoon Dies after being Struck by Lightning on Florida Beach

Death of 29-year-old considered unusual because the lightning 'came from a storm several miles away'

Posted by retort at 07:06 PM | 18 COMMENTS | permalink

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A Colorado man who was on his honeymoon in Florida was killed after being struck by lightning at New Smyrna Beach on Friday in what may have been the state's first lightning fatality this year, the authorities said.

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-- The New York Times (@nytimes.com) Jun 24, 2025 at 2:40 PM

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Lightening capitol of the US, FL avgs 7 deaths a year... but that's out of 300 lightening strikes per sq mile each year.

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2025-06-25 09:21 PM

Stay out of Florida if you want to live

#2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-06-25 09:29 PM

He shoulda been carrying his 1 iron.

#3 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2025-06-25 10:26 PM

Why can't this happen to Trump????

#4 | Posted by Angrydad at 2025-06-25 10:28 PM

Why can't this happen to Trump????

He doesn't go anywhere if his "hair" might get wet.

#5 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-06-25 10:32 PM

Stay out of Florida if you want to live

#2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-06-25 09:29 PM | Reply | Flag: bump

#6 | Posted by twinkhunter at 2025-06-25 10:38 PM

Hope he didn't die a virgin.

#7 | Posted by mattm at 2025-06-26 02:12 AM

#7: This is terrible-- he looked like a nice guy. I feel awful for the young widow.

Extreme weather has been killing and injuring Americans this year. In addition to this tragedy, a lightning strike injured a score of people on a Wisconsin lake, a sudden rogue squall capsized a boat on Lake Tahoe, drowning several people, floods killed people in Texas, and a heat wave is currently affecting about 160 million people.

But hey, there's no global warming and Dummkopf Trumpf will be eliminating FEMA. Here's what the US looked like five years ago, which will look worse in the future:

https://www.noaa.gov/sites/default/files/legacy/image/2021/Jan/1-2020-US-BILLION-DOLLAR-DISASTER-MAP.png


#8 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-06-26 03:37 AM

#8: In New Jersey, the wind was so strong that a lifeguard was hospitalized after being impaled by a loose beach umbrella: www.nbcnews.com

#9 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-06-26 03:44 AM

Poor couple, who probably had no idea FL receives a yuuge number of lightning strikes every year.

#10 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-06-26 05:57 AM

Trump or ICE's fault.

#11 | Posted by homerj at 2025-06-26 01:39 PM

Trump or ICE's fault.

#11 | Posted by homerj

No it's the fault of the gays remember? Anything that god does to america is done because america is too kind and accepting. God is a fascist and wants america to be more cruel.

#12 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-06-26 02:22 PM

------- Florida, what a --------, LegallyStupid must live there.

#13 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-06-26 03:07 PM

This is shocking

#14 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-06-26 04:54 PM

Wow, 7 deaths of yer in a population of 22 million. It is only a matter of time before,
It gets me. Should i just stay indoors? Or maybe just move someplace miserable and cold.

#15 | Posted by Miranda7 at 2025-06-26 09:25 PM

Ah ... .keyboard damage due to lightning, first it's typos then I'm next. Pray for me.

#16 | Posted by Miranda7 at 2025-06-26 09:26 PM

Just keep you a s s out the sun, MIRANDA. Melanoma is far more likely of a death sentence than lightning.

#17 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2025-06-26 09:27 PM

Funny you should say that. When I first moved here, I had trouble estimating age, which is an important skill for a police officer. Forty year old white women in Fl looked like 70 year olds anywhere else.

#18 | Posted by Miranda7 at 2025-06-26 09:38 PM

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