WOW just a heads up for you gardeners that like music.

Bill

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Thunderstorms and iPods ‹ Not a Good iDea
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PubMed Citation

To the Editor: The potential for permanent hearing loss due to prolonged
use of personal stereo equipment, such as portable compact-disk or MP3
players, at high decibel levels has been well described in the
literature.1 We have recently become aware of an additional, albeit
uncommon, hazard associated with the use of such devices.
A 37-year-old man was brought to the emergency department at our
hospital. He had been jogging in a thunderstorm, listening to his iPod,
when an adjacent tree was struck by lightning. Witnesses reported that
he was thrown approximately 8 ft (2.4 m) from the tree.
The patient had second-degree burns on his chest and left leg. In
addition, two linear burns extended along his anterior chest and neck to
the sides of his face, terminating in substantial burns in the external
auditory meatus bilaterally, corresponding to the positions of his
earphones at the time of the lightning strike. Both of his tympanic
membranes were ruptured, and he had a severe conductive hearing deficit.
He also had a mandibular fracture. Computed tomography of the mandible
(Figure 1A) and of the temporal bones showed bilateral dislocation of
the incudomalleolar joints (Figure 1B and 1C). Internal fixation of the
mandibular fractures was performed and the perforations of the tympanic
membranes were managed with the use of perichondrial grafting.

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