Found this in the local paper this morning. Glad I did not attend.
Have to love softball parents though, get the crap knocked out of her and she plans to return the next day.
http://cbs13.com/local/stockton.lightni ... 80667.html
dittoz wrote:Yeah, crazy weather. The dumbest thing I think I've ever seen was when they cleared the fields as the weather got worse, an entire team of girls remained sitting in RF just chit-chatting out in the grass. Lightning getting closer and they're sitting in the middle of an open field! Fortunately, heavy rain suddenly dropped and the girls scattered. It was only about 2 mins later that the bolt came down onto the field!
The lady that got hit was a mom with All American. Reportedly, she was holding an umbrella and it hit that. She looked like she was okay which amazes me, but they scraped her up off the ground and carted her to the hospital in an ambulance. Like ILB said, scared the crap out of me too - loudest boom I have ever heard. I actually thought in my mind that I heard the boom before I saw the lightning. All I know is everything went white momentarily and there was no chance to react as it occured. All the kids were screaming right after - apparently the bolt hit about 50' from where we were sitting. We were in our truck and my wife yells at me to CLOSE THE WINDOW! Gotta laugh at that one...
Regional was calm and clear on Sunday. Congrats to ILB's team - we unfortunately, did not fare quite so well...