They say lightning never strikes the same place twice, but this small town in Texas is known to have the most lightning strikes in the entire United States.
From the turnouts on Trans Mountain road in El Paso, you can watch lightning storms form and drift in from miles and miles away. You sometimes even get the feeling you're at the same level. I love watching lightning storms from up there but there's one city in Texas where the odds of seeing lightning are way higher.
According to Christopher Fontenot he was able to debunk the myth that lightning doesn't string the same place twice. He says a communication tower in Plaquemine was struck 15+ times during Monday's storms.
It's one of Louisiana's biggest Spring and Summer dangers. It's lightning. This video is proof why you should stay inside when storms are moving through.
They say lighting never strikes twice in the same place. However, we know where it strikes more often than most places. Welcome to summer in Louisiana.
The National Weather Service estimates that every year, you have a 1/1,000,000th chance of being struck by a bolt of lightning. We’d like to know what the odds are of being hit by a bolt of lightning in the crotch.
Normally, we don’t sit around all day thinking about the numeric probability of losing a game of “Roshambo” with Mother Nature. In fact, we go out of
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