Excerpt from
THE HANDBOOK FOR LIGHTNING STRIKE
SURVIVORS
Look at photographs of lightning. The images are extraordinary. They’re deadly beautiful. I’ve seen pictures of cloud-to-ground lightning, spreading and spiraling over soybean and cotton fields. I’ve seen pictures of one lightning bolt fork into eight directions—like spider’s legs. I think about Zeus and the gods when I see these pictures. I think about this force of nature as something I will always be at odds with, and I will never win. I know that. Neither will you.