The chance that during a strong thunderstorm, lightning will hit you exactly, about 1 in 300 thousand.
But if, nevertheless, this happens and the lightning does not instantly kill you, roasting you alive, then in 90% of cases, the so-called "Lichtenberg Figures" will remain on your skin.
These are the patterns of the distribution of spark channels formed during a sliding spark discharge.
These "figures" look very similar to the roots of a plant or the circulatory system.
Below is a selection of photographs of 19 survivors after being struck by lightning, on whose skin such figures were formed. In one case, the blow was so strong that the figures were severely healed, but in others they look like a graceful "natural tattoo".
A lightning strike can reportedly heat the surrounding air to 27,760 degrees Celsius - five times hotter than the Sun - and can contain up to 1 billion volts of electricity. It is scary to even imagine what such an amount of energy can do to the human body.
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When lightning enters your body, it short-circuits small electrical signals that affect your heart, lungs and nervous system. This can lead to cardiac arrest, seizures, brain damage of varying severity, spinal cord injury, and even amnesia.
Burning heat, light and electricity can also damage your eyes. For example, lightning can punch holes in the retina and cause cataracts. Unfortunately for men, lightning can also cause impotence and a decrease in libido in general.
When lightning travels across the surface of the body, it can eject red blood cells from the vessels inside the epidermis. In the same way, bruises form, and in the case of lightning after it, the same previously mentioned figures of Lichtenberg appear.
The insane temperature contained in lightning can heat any metal, and can cause third-degree burns in a survivor. But sometimes it just instantly evaporates sweat or raindrops on your skin.
And sometimes lightning, like an explosion, even blows off clothes or shoes from people, leaving them almost naked.