Lightning strike.

What are the most dangerous things in nature? Bears, wolves, snakes or cougars? If "Mother Nature" is going to kill you, she's most likely to do it with a flood, but her second choice would be to strike you with lightning. We're going to talk about number two.

Lightning and the human body just don't mix very successfully. The problem is lightning consists of extremely high voltage, on the order of 300,000 volts, that can cause instantaneous death from cardiac or cardiopulmonary arrest. Fortunately, only about 20 percent of lightning strike victims die immediately, but just because a lightning strike victim isn't dead doesn't mean he totally dodged a bullet. He may …