[TheForge] lightning OT:

[Hoss McGregor]

I was talking to a customer on the phone. Lightning hit the utility pole between our shop and the road. I just caught it out of the corner of my eye I still had some neat after effects for a minute or two.

Another time, I was on a boom lift, about 40 foot up, when I saw a flash off in the distance. Heard it before I could get the engine started. I was already standing at the control station. Job site was supposed to be shut down if there was lightning within 10 miles. Problem is, sometimes the first strike is right next to you. 

By the way, a boom lift does not move fast enough in that situation.
Hoss









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> From: artgawk at thegrid.net
> Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 11:35:26 -0700
> To: theforge at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] lightning OT:
> 
>  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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