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College football lightning delays are getting absurd. So I went down the rabbit hole: how many people have actually been killed by lightning during a Division I football game in the last 50 years? T...

SummaryA researcher found no documented deaths from lightning during Division I college football games in the last 50 years, yet lightning delays have become increasingly stringent despite lightning deaths in the US overall declining from 70-100 annually in the 1970s to 20-30 today. The thread argues that modern lightning protocols represent excessive risk aversion disconnected from actual historical danger.Sep 19, 202611 tweets♥ 2K