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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]According to the poster on Websleuths, blitzortung.org doesn’t receive data on all lightning strikes as its data come from volunteers who may or may not have their detection devices on at any given time. Is it possible that there were some strikes closer to the family’s location?

Unlike a direct strike, ground currents affect a much larger area. In 2016, an indirect lightning strike hit the ground in Norway and killed over 300 reindeer. You can look up the news and it’s really crazy stuff!

As for mom’s location (30 yards away) maybe they followed lightning safety practice, which is to spread out if in a group so that you increase the chance for survivors who could come to the aid of any victims from a strike.

The investigators should already know time of death for each family members. If a ground current was the cause of their deaths, wouldn’t there be an identical time of death for 3 people and a dog? Of course we don’t have the information for now. [/quote]

Unfortunately I think the amount of time it took to find them plus the heat of the environment would impact the precision of estimating time of death.  They may have it down to a relatively large window of time but be unable to say anything more narrow than that with high confidence.

That's really interesting about the distance it can travel and 30 yards is a pretty long way.  Hopefully the additional testing concludes soon and they will be able to say what happened with some confidence.[/quote]

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