Lightning strikes rarely kill, but change victims` lives
(World News USA)

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Justin Gauger can remember almost everything from the day that changed his life. He was on a family fishing trip near Woods Canyon Lake in Arizona in August 2014 when lightning struck his back, propelling him 50 feet (15 meters) sideways until he landed face-first in a pile of rocks. The sound of the strike was deafening, as loud as the blasts he heard while serving in the U.S. Marine Corps, Gauger, now 46, recalls. He briefly saw a white glow around him, “like a ball of light.” Then everything went dark. When he came to, he felt pain throughout his body and he was paralyzed from the waist down —temporarily, as it turned out. Lightning injuries are rarer in the United States...