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Indignity Vol. 5, No. 113
SEEK SHELTER DEP'T.
The Past Week in Lightning
ON TUESDAY OF last week, a man spending his first night in a house he'd bought in Edmond, Oklahoma, was awakened by his fire alarm after lightning hit the roof of the garage and ignited it.
A 15-year-old boy was thrown to the ground and suffered second-degree burns on Thursday when lightning reportedly jumped from a tree to his chain necklace while he was taking shelter from sudden thunderstorms in Central Park. "I'm kind of mad, though, because his curls stayed intact and mine don't, and I haven't been electrocuted," his sister told CBS News New York.
In Pine Valley, Utah, a wildfire started by lightning on Thursday is now burning out of control over more than 8,000 acres.
A 29-year-old man from Colorado, on his honeymoon in Florida, died on Saturday after being struck by lighting Friday while he stood in "ankle-deep water" at New Smyrna Beach under what a witness described as a "clear blue sky."
Elsewhere in New Smyrna Beach that Friday, two golfers were "indirectly struck" by lightning at the Club at Venetian Bay.
Four women from Kentucky on a group vacation to Marco Island, Florida, told Gulf Coast NBC that they had gotten matching lightning-bolt tattoos on Sunday after lightning hit a tiki hut above them Saturday and created a ground current that left them stunned. "Like, I went unconscious, and then, when I woke up, like, I had a pounding in my head, like the shock went through my body," one of them said. "I couldn’t hear. I can hardly see. I could barely walk."
Two brothers in Duryea, Pennsylvania, were evaluated at the hospital Sunday after being hit by current from a lightning strike on a tree under which they had been working with their father on a "crash derby" car. "When I pulled my sock off, it was smoking," one of them told WNEP TV news.
Four people were knocked down when lightning struck a cabana at a beach entrance in Holmes Beach, Florida, on Monday. One of them, a man reportedly in his 30s, was hospitalized and at least one other suffered visible burns.
The Navarre Beach, Florida, fire and rescue department reported that one person received "minor injuries" from being struck by lightning at a local restaurant.
Six adults and 12 children were reportedly taken to the hospital today after lightning struck the water at Lake Murray Public Park near the Dreher Shoals Dam in Lexington, South Carolina.
WEATHER REVIEWS
New York City, June 23, 2025
★ In the brief minutes it took to use the nail clippers and put in contact lenses, with the bathroom door closed against the cat and incidentally the air conditioner, the heat came creeping in through the vent. Floating dampness palpably clogged the stairwell. The front stoop was sheeted with water condensed by the air conditioner above, but by afternoon all but the direct landing spot of the drip had been baked dry. Stepping from the sidewalk into the dark and heavily cooled market was stupefying, making it hard to think straight about the groceries. At sundown, after everyone had long since turned their backs on the day, the sky was a luminous purple, shading to pink in the west.
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Tom Scocca
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SANDWICH RECIPES DEP'T.
WE PRESENT INSTRUCTIONS in aid of the assembly of a sandwich selected from Encyclopedia of Cookery; 1001 Recipes, Menus & Rules for Modern, Scientific and Economic Cookery (Vol. 4), by Eugene Christian and Molly Griswold Christian, published by the Corrective Eating Society in 1920, and available at archive.org for the delectation of all.
NUT AND RIPE OLIVE SANDWICHES
Stone and chop fine ripe olives. Add equal parts of cream cheese and grated nuts or peanut butter. Spread between whole wheat bread or crackers.
If you decide to prepare and attempt to enjoy a sandwich inspired by this offering, be sure to send a picture to indignity@indignity.net .
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