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http://www.crh.noaa.gov/pub/?n=ltg/ltg_060621_westminster_cycle.php

This is a link to the widely reported 21 June 2006 Motorcyclist
fatality by lightning strike in Colorado. Please have a look, pass
this along to your cycling colleagues, and consider the implications
on your/my own riding choices.

Thanks to NOAA scientists, Stephen Hodanish and Greg Stewart, for
their work on this study. Thanks to Jim Richardson, Mountain News
Net--Colorado, for follow-up on this unusual motorcycling fatality.

[CVOJOE]

[highlight]The first flash (-19 kA), occurred at 2311:20 UTC (5:11:20 pm MDT), while the second flash (-13 kA) occurred.[/highlight] ....13 to 19 thousand amps.........hmmmmm not that would do it wouldn't it ?

It is very important that if you see lightning (even if it is "in the distance"), or hear thunder, you should seek safe shelter. Safe shelter is a large enclosed substantial building, or a hard topped vehicle NO CHIT!!

[RJ749]

This should bring it close to home for those of us on the Mt Evans loop at Cripple Creek.

When the rider was struck by lightning in Colorado some of us were within just miles of the strike.

The group of us led by AK that went near Denver and then south to Colorado Springs on the 25 were within 6 miles of the stike zone and I would estimate within 10 minutes of zero hour on the day of the strike, June 21st.

Now that is too damn scary!