1 A highly excitable pup that jumps at you is cute but an 18 lb pup can grow up to 80 lbs rather quickly. A full grown 80 lb Labrador Retriever habitually jumping at you is not.  Labradors should learn to cope and connect with other people and dogs. This breed is very social; they like to feel that they are not alone.
Below are some additional facts about lightning: 1  25 million - Average U.S. cloud-to-ground lightning strikes per year. 2  50,000 degrees (F) - Temperature that lightning can reach. 3  1,800 - Average number of thunderstorms on earth at any given moment.  100 - Number of times lightning hits earth per second.
From 1993 through 2010, Texas had 246 injuries and 57 deaths â 303 total reported lightning strikes, an average of about 18 per year. In 2009, 11 folks were injured in Texas. Add in the three who were killed and thatâs at least 13 people struck by lightning that year, not counting strikes that went unreported.