First, a “responsible” alert from this website: Always be careful when there’s a T-storm around!
NEVER LISTEN TO MP3 PLAYERS OR HAVE HEADPHONES STUCK IN EARS DURING THUNDERSTORMS
FAILURE TO DO SO MAY RESULT SERIOUS OR EVEN FATAL CONSEQUENCES There… now onto the news. A 14-year old Miss Zhang, whom you could hardly tell got hit by a T-storm (see the pic below, taken from the Nanjing evening paper Yangtse Evening News), did indeed get hit by a T-storm on August 5, 2010. This cut very deep into an otherwise incident-free trip, with both mom and daughter just back from Shanghai en route to Chongqing. Her being struck by lightening made headline news on the August 11, 2010 Yangtse Evening News. (Due to the “efficiency” of China Post, your tech blogger only got this in hardcopy form today.) When Miss Zhang, otherwise known as Xiao Pu, woke not long after she got rushed to the hospital following the incident, she had no idea why she was there — as in her being in the hospital. This T-storm...