Upstate man survives 6th lightning strike
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SENECA, S.C. (AP) -- They say lightning never strikes the same place twice, but what about six times?
A 58-year-old Seneca man was recovering at a hospital Wednesday after he says he was struck by lightning for the sixth time.
Martha Roberts says her husband, Melvin, was trying to cover his lawn mower at their Seneca home Monday when he was struck. Neighbors found Melvin Roberts unconscious in the yard.
Roberts says he has a wound on his foot and blisters on his ankles from the most recent strike.
He says he spent more than a year in a wheelchair after another strike in 2007 and had to give up his work as a heavy equipment operator due to injuries from previous lightning strikes.
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