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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was there when it happened and it was incredibly scary and sad.  It had been an absolutely beautiful day and then we began to get a few small rain drops. We packed up and had crossed the street to the bathhouse to wash off when suddenly everyone was rushing off the beach.  Within minutes we had fire trucks, EMTs, etc.

This was in Kitty Hawk btw. Those leaving the beach only knew someone had been hit by lightning.  Sky was clear.  We got in our car and began to leave and further down by Nags Head it was dark, cloudy and raining.

This did come out of the blue.  Aside from very light and fine rain drops there was no other indication of a storm coming.  It was incredibly sad.  Beach remained closed remainder of day and the storm ended up hitting NH and KH dumping a ton of rain with lots of lightning and strong thunderclaps 
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Sorry, but rain doesn't fall out of clear blue sky. There was a storm close enough that you were getting rain. That's not "off in the distance". That's nearly overhead. Gravity doesn't make rain fall sideways. It comes more or less straight down out of the cloud it precipitated from.

It's SCIENCE, people. [/quote]

Clearly you didn’t read. I mentioned that just a few miles south in Nags Head it was already dark and raining. Storm was clearly approaching but sky was still blue in Kitty Hawk when he got hit. Nothing but a few drops of rain and blue skies.  Storm was in the vicinity but not directly overhead [/quote]

A blue sky directly overhead is meaningless if there's a thunderstorm a few miles away. Nags Head and Kitty Hawk are like five minutes from each other. [/quote]

O.k....it sounds like MOST of the people on the beach were taken by surprise by that lightning bolt from out of nowhere.  Maybe there were visible clouds off in the distance but it doesn't sound like anyone was noticing a thunderstorm approaching.  Everyone was just relaxing and having a fun day at the beach until this random bolt came out of the blue.

I've been to OBX many times and I can not remember seeing cloud to ground lightning when the sky overhead was blue.  It actually really shocks me that that happened. [/quote]

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