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Originally Posted by jimworcs

Who said there was a danger of lightening? Rudy just made that up as an excuse to slag off another customer in the time honoured way of airline personnel in the US. Every time it rains, there is not a danger of lightening. This made up excuse is typical of airline employees..they do it automatically regardless of the facts. Typical examples of lying knee jerk responses "the delay was due to the weather"; "someone will be available to help you at the gate"; "the gate are aware you are connecting, and your flight will be held"; "we paged you"; "we emailed the changes to you"; etc, etc, etc...

Um, before you went on that tirade, did you read the title of the thread?

"Delta left all our bags out in thunderstorms!"

It's not physically possible to have thunder if you don't have lightning, so to answer you question it was the OP who effectively said it.

With that said, to rubybjr and Gromit801 - the first strikes are not going to be right overhead. We all understand that. When the ramp closes for lightning, there is time to pull the curtains closed as you leave. That comes from more than 8 years on the ramp. I also have spent a few years in the baggage service office. From both I can tell you that it is understandable that the bag will get a bit wet. In fact, just from loading in a storm the fabric can get soaked. However, there is no reason that the bag should have been left out long enough that the contents got water logged. That was careless handling one someone's part.