[TheForge] Weathervanes and Lightening

[Ralph]

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>         Lightning is some weird stuff.  Butthole's house was stricken
>         about 6 years ago.  He and his wife were asleep when suddenly
>         KA - *BOOM*.  Their antenna tower was hit, then jumped to the
>         side of the house and blew a THREE foot diameter hole through
>         the exterior wall, blowing them both out of bed.  One of the
>         cats wound up cinged to a crew cut all over its body.  I showed
>         up a couple days later and had I not seen the hole with my own
>         eyes, I'm not sure I would have believed it.  They were told
>         that it's something of a small miracle nobody was killed.  They
>         told me the light was so bright that they thought the second
>         coming was occuring right there in their bedroom.
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>         There ain't much that scares me, but lightning turns me
>         sheet-white.  I learned how to teleport from my back porch
>         to the middle of my living room in what seemed under one
>         second when lighning struck my back yard, not 30 feet from
>         where I stood.  My hair was literally standing straight up,
>         I was so scared.  To get the the living room you have to go
>         though the porch, a 20' square kitchen, and a short hallway.
>         I moved like an olympic athlete that day.

While working for EG & G at KSC I got to witness some of the lightning 
tests.... Talk about impressive.......

Electricity is some scary stuff when it is unleashed and wild.......

Ralph


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