A third person died Friday after a bolt of lightning struck near the White House in Washington, D.C., Thursday evening.
The bolt hit a tree in Lafayette Park across the street from the White House during an evening storm, according to authorities. On Friday, D.C. police announced that a 29-year-old man had died due to injuries from the strike. He was one of four victims rushed to the hospital in critical condition after the strike.
Victims James Mueller, 76, and Donna Mueller, 75, both died on Friday after the incident as well. The married couple was visiting the nation’s capital to celebrate their 56th wedding anniversary
According to WTOP news, the Muellers had five children, 10 grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren.
The fourth victim is reportedly in critical condition.
“We are saddened by the tragic loss of life after the lightning strike in Lafayette Park. Our hearts are with the families who lost loved ones, and we are praying for those still fighting for their lives,” White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said after the Muellers’ deaths in a statement, according to NPR.
Chris Vagasky, a meteorologist and lightning expert who works as an analyst for a company that makes weather instruments, told The Washington Post that there was a “6 stroke flash near the White House that hit the same point on the ground” which means that six separate lightning strikes hit the same exact spot in a fraction of a second.
Mother Nature getting closer. She hates liars.
Haarp’s accuracy needs a little fine tuning.
And that’s why Biden spends all his time hiding out in the basement.
Heck of a story for all their Kids and Grandkids. Their all American, right there. Salute.
…shame it didn’t hit some OTHER, more deserving guy named Mueller…
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God will not be mocked! (queue the thunder and lightning)
I was on the water at the cottage one day a few years back,not really out there for any reason other than going for a boat ride.
I was keeping an eye on the black clouds approaching, then out of the blue i felt the hairs on my body rising.
Ran straight to the shore wide open throttle parked the boat unceremoniously between some rocks and hunkered down in the woods.
It was all over in about 20 minutes.
You know when you have that feeling?
The Almighty needs to work on his targeting. Pedo Joe and his handlers are INSIDE the White House…not standing under a tree out front.
It has become Frankenstein’s castle trying to keep the prez alive.
@mmm No, not FRANKENSTEIN. IT sounds like Castle WOLFENSTEIN dungeon.
There was an old joke about lightning missing the wrong victim ending with the punchline from Heaven of “Nuts I missed”, that I told to a friend when I was a kid whose mom overheard it and didn’t think it was funny, she was not amused. She thought I was being sacrilegious which I probably was and was banned there for a while. If I remember right, I was originally told that joke by my friend’s father who was the neighborhood kidder and jokester and the biggest kid on the block.
As a black woman I have to worry about being killed on the way to work. This is something you white-bread privileged folks don’t ever consider. Inflation is temporary. Lightning is forever.