A married father-of-three postal worker from Nevada died over the weekend after being struck by lightning while riding a jet ski at a reservoir in California with his son, who was also injured.
The deceased victim has been identified as 47-year-old Eugene Arao, a US Army veteran and a long-time mail carrier from Reno.
According to officials, Arao and his son were on a jet ski at Stampede Reservoir in Sierra County, California, on Saturday afternoon when they were caught off guard by a thunderstorm.
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5 comments:
Duh....how dumb can they be??
If to far from shelter, they should have just sat where they where. Don't move.
Maybe they were on the water and a storm popped up. It has happened to me a bunch of times. Duh... how dumb can you be. 12:03 is an idiot.
I don't think it is fair to say this man is dumb. Storms can come out of no where and quickly especially when around water. This is a sad story and condolences to the family.
Sounds like a family of stupid were they drinking ? This father should have known better lifeguards even chase people off the beach sitting under umbrellas I remember when a family was killed in OC like they didn't know the umbrella rod in a thunderstorm was a conductor!
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