Potomac Diary: June 26

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HUMAN LIGHTNING ROD

This is Lightning Safety Awareness Week, which reminded Diary of Roy Sullivan, a onetime U.S. park ranger in Shenandoah National Park. In one 35-year stretch, from 1942 to 1977, he was struck by lightning seven times — and survived each one.

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