This Is Why You Don't Hide Under A Tree During A Lightning Storm
 

This Is Why You Don't Hide Under A Tree During A Lightning Storm

:ohnoes: Holy Sheit!!!!

I prefer to hide under something really big and metallic with grounding wires from the metal thing wrapped around my nuts on the way to the ground.

well, that's why you don't hide under THAT tree. the rest of them were safe choices. :dance:

if you really want struck, wave a golf club over your head.

Very scary indeed

Shocking!

SPAC is an awesome outdoor concert venue. Saw the Allman Brothers there in the Summer of '99.

Good gig and the first time I got to see Derek Trucks jammin'.
Scott

Back in the 60's I had a TV customer who had a SECOND tree hit in his back yard, this second hit followed a branch to his gutters/downspout/antenna line and found his new Zenith color set in the basement, he was sitting in his recliner watching a game, and so the lightening literally fried the entire set, vaporized the steel in the tuner, blew out the power transformer, junk the set.....

now here is the scary part.....he setting there and when it hit, it vaporized ALL the wiring to/from the set, found the a/c to the house, and in the basement all the outlets and lights and wall switches started shooting arcs all around him and over his head, a regular light show, he was telling me about it, and I said no way man.....he look at the cover plates around the room, sure enough every one was burnt to a black friend crisp.....I about shit bricks at the sight of that.....I looked at him and said lucky to be alive, he just grins and says 'don't I know it'......this all in Northern Va. McLean area.......

here in Florida, I lost a tree in my back yard ~130' oak, blew out all the electronics for many houses around.....tallest tree on the hill according to the climber who cut it down....this was about 16 years ago.....

and about 4? years ago the guy across the street had one hit in his back yard, it split the 3' diameter ~100' trunk clean in two, opened it up so bad that when the felled it, the trunk split in two and rolled over on a guys foot, sending him to the hospital.....it blew bark all over the entire burb, one piece of bark hit a fan in my garage about 120' from the tree, and broke the housing bark stains on the broken piece that's how powerful that was, just missed the vette, I got lucky....but we lost all our electronics once again another round of replacement......

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My mom was watching tv one night way back when, when a storm came up, and a ball of lightning came down the chimney and hit the tv.

When I was a kid I was looking outside our window one day. Lightning hit the (ungrounded) ham radio antenna belonging to our idiot neighbors. The room lit up in a flash, I heard a loud boom, and I swear I couldn't see for a minute. Caused a small fire in their basement too :funny:

A typical lightning bolt contains about 15 million volts of electricity and instantly heats up the air around it to over 60,000 degrees, with some reaching more than 100,000 degrees. That's why the total energy of a strong thunderstorm can exceed the energy released during an atomic explosion."

and can even bring home a load of drywall...
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I went out with a girl years ago that was involved in a lightning strike. Her and a friend were under a tree that was hit during a storm. The tree.....and her friend, were split in two. She and the one killed were both thrown 2oft from the tree...she was just lucky. She's still traumatized by the image of that guy. :ack: :sadangel:

You mean ,leaf there fast.:lol:

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I was told to use a 9 iron since even God can't hit a 9 iron.......

1 iron :yesnod:

Wow!! I had a tree in my yard hit like that a couple of years ago. We were lucky that the house and all of us were OK.

I forgot about another incident some static discharge somehow got to the Direct TV dish in the back yard on a 4' post, it's about 6' from the house....and blew out the two HDMI inputs in back of the main TV, so we use HDMI 3 on the edge of the TV......blasted out all the sat gear, we switched to Uverse after that.....thing is, all it was was a small 'tick'.....no light, no bang, just a large static discharge.....

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