{"id":35043,"date":"2023-08-25T18:44:20","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T22:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=35043"},"modified":"2023-08-25T18:44:23","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T22:44:23","slug":"polk-county-commissioner-lost-3-horses-by-a-lightning-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2023\/08\/25\/polk-county-commissioner-lost-3-horses-by-a-lightning-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Polk County commissioner lost 3 horses by a lightning strike"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The love of horses on Polk County Commissioner Neil Combee’s ranch has been passed down for nearly four generations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“I got my first horse when I was four years old. My grandpa bought it for me, and I rode it from his house to our house,” said Neil Combee, Polk County Commissioner for District 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Combee hopes to hand the horses over to his grandchildren.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“This particular line, we kept that influence in there for 55 years now, and I’m on the verge of losing it after the lightning storm,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Neil Combee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Combee worries he is very close to losing that dream now that three of his horses have died after being struck by lightning Sunday. Two of the horses were 22 years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“There was just one bolt of lightning, and it shook everything\u2014one of those that would almost deafen you. So, I knew it was a major bolt,\u201d Combee said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A fourth horse was seriously injured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I just want people to be aware just how dangerous it can be because I just had three horses killed instantly, and one more is injured, and we’re waiting to see if she can recover,” said Combee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Florida is the lightning capital of the United States. According to the National Weather Service, more people are struck and killed by lightning in Florida than in any other state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The love of horses on Polk County Commissioner Neil Combee’s ranch has been passed down for nearly four generations. “I got my first horse when I was four years old.… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[5789],"class_list":["post-35043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-polk-county-commissioner-lost-3-horses-by-a-lightning-strike"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}