When lightning LOVES you!!!

          by Panos Z. 

Roy Sullivan was a forest ranger in Virginia, USA. He is in the Guinness Book of World Records for a
remarkable record. Between 1942 and 1977, Roy survived seven lightning strikes. His nickname was The
Human Lightning Rod.
    The first lightning strike was in 1942 as he was working up a tree. On that day, he lost the nail from his big
toe. The second strike happened while he was driving on a mountain road. It knocked him unconscious and
burnt his eyebrows off. The third strike occured when he was in his front garden and it left him with a damaged showlder.
    The fourth strike took place in 1972 while he was in a ranger station. It burnt off his hair. Roy dumped a bucket of water over his head to cool off. A year later another lightning strike hit him on the head and set his hair on fire again. The sixth strike happened in 1976 while Roy was at a campsite. Roy tried to run away from a cloud which was moving in his direction. This time the strike hurt his ankle. The last lightning bolt hit him while he was fishing and it sent him to hospital with severe burns to the chest and stomach.

    Roy Sullivan was a very fortunate man. The chance of lightning striking a person just once is only one in 600,000. This chance came his way seven times and each time he survived. That's what you call luck!