Farmers are vulnerable because of where they are when they’re out in their fields — the tallest object in an open space, plowing or haying as the summer day heats up.
https://www.quora.com/Why-are-some-people-more-prone-to-getting-struck-by-lightning
Lightning seems to be picky about what it hits. Some studies suggest that it preferentially strikes oaks trees over other species. And it certainly is sexist, striking and killing men far more often than women. In Great Britain over a two decade period, 85% of lightning fatalities were men. In a recent study of Florida lightning fatalities, 87% of the persons struck by lightning were males. Before suspecting a plot by radical feminists, note that while 34% of the males struck by lightning were killed, 44% of the females struck died.
Could being struck by lightning be genetic?
Is it in the genes? A midwest woman was struck by lightning in 1995. Nothing odd there, you say. But her nephew had recently been struck and suffered temporary blindness. Her cousin was dazed in the 1970s when lightning struck her unfolded umbrella. The same woman had been struck once before-in 1965. Her grandfather was killed by lightning on his farm in 1921. And his brother was killed while standing in the doorway of his house in the 1920s. At this rate that part of gene pool will soon be exhausted
[From sky-fire.tv 2009 article, no longer online]
