I keep telling you people it ain't all boat drinks and sunsets here.
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Ping!
Good for them.
It rains and thunders daily here. Getting really tired of it. People should not be out in this weather. Let alone walking?
I have to keep my ham radios disconnected from their antennas. I just put up a 30’ tall HF antenna.
Once lightning hit the telephone pole in my backyard. It fried everything connected to cable and power. Lost a dvr, powered subwoofer, pc etc. Now I have every sensitive device on a ups.
That’s sweet, still walking hand in hand, after 17 yrs of marriage.
They must be love struck with each other.
Maybe next time they’ll go to church, too.
We had a cabin in central Utah. My wife was painting upstairs when lightning struck maybe 100 yards away. The frames in the roof of the A-Frame were held together by large steel bolts in the joists with no connection to anything but the wood frame. She got a shock from a spark that jumped from a bolt to the paint brush. Lightning occurs in concert with a large electromagnetic field collapse that can induce currents in metal some distance away. Lightning is no joke.
If you find yourself in an electrical storm hold a 1 iron over your head because not even God can hit a 1 iron.
—Lee Trevino
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Prayers for those who have been injured.
Were the Viking Kitties out practicing the Zot?
Not sure what this is supposed to mean. Lightning strikes are the most random of random events. There is no trend involving lightning strikes or deaths. Perhaps an unfortunate coincidence but nothing more.
Aaron Walenga, 48, and his wife of 17 years, Clare Walenga, had just dropped their kids off at church
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They wouldn’t have been struck if they hadn’t skipped church. Just sayin’.
Years ago, whilst working in the yard, I sat on a bench which was located under some trees.
The day was sunny, except for one small grey cloud. Out of nowhere, I heard a loud boom and saw a very brilliant flash of light. For a second, I thought we had been nuked. I grabbed my cat and set a new speed record running inside.
It took a while for my heart rate to get back to normal. That lightning came out of nowhere.
Later that night, I discovered that the lightning had fried my State-of-the-art and expensive DVR. Ugh. After that one strike, everything was quiet and back to normal.
A few years ago, my uncle was struck. He was outside and he was struck by a bolt from a storm around ten miles away. Luckily, he wasn’t seriously injured.
Lightning should be taken seriously.