[TheForge] lightning OT:

[peter fels]

 I was out on our overlook when it was  storming offshore one afternoon when lightening struck not far off. 
A little side branch from the bolt hit the stack of a steel, wood fired hot tub about 10' away,
and we both felt a sharp tap on the head and a percussive small clicking on our feet and heard a loud crack sound.
We promptly headed inside once we pulled our jaws back up.


On Jun 1, 2011, at 5:10 AM, Andrew Vida wrote:

> The closest to me that lightning ever struck was about 30 or 40 feet.  I 
> was standing in the doorway of my back porch in NJ and suddenly, and I 
> mean as in "no memory of intervening time", I found myself standing in 
> the middle of my living room as if having moved by teleportation, my 
> hair standing just about straight up.  I remember a blinding flash, an d 
> ear splitting crack, and then the living room appearing before my eyes, 
> nothing between.  An interesting experience I have no desire ever to repeat.
> 
> Down in south Jersey, my friends Brent and his wife were in bed when 
> lightning struck the house not 3 feet from the foot of the bed.  Blew a 
> 2' diameter hole in the exterior wall.  They said it sounded like a bomb 
> had gone off in the room.
> 
> Kim George wrote:
>> This came from a long way away. For the closer hits we depend on the
>> lightning rods.Most people don't think of them any more but they're
>> the best protection.
>> 
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