Posted on 04/02/2014 3:17:39 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Not Guilty and CUTE!
It blew the bark off about an inch deep and two inches wide and raised every hair on my body. I thank God I'm still alive.
Roy Sullivan, Shenandoah Park Ranger. I remember seeing him on Johnny Carson one night. Had a pretty good sense of humor.
In the category of electromagnetic phenomena, I worked with a lady who fried two computer hard drivers over time. Several times before the computer failed, it would stop working. I had to go over there and touch the mouse, keyboard, tower and monitor before the computer would work again. She had bad vibes. It was odd.
Lucky it didn’t follow a root out from the trunk and knock you off your feet.
That was absolutely the "Bolt out of the blue", and it gave me a different perspective on life for a while.
Well, they did record “Ride The Lightning”.
My son, then 20, got hit by lightning at home while sitting at his computer. It picked him up and threw him into the next room. For the next few months he could see in the dark but he could not walk out in daylight without shades. He kept knocking out electricity by touching stuff. Only permanent damage: one eye is very slightly off line. It is corrected by glasses although only a few eye doctors can diagnose it. One also told him recently he can correct that through eye exercise and may start soon. You learn quickly that doctors generally know nothing about effects of lightning strikes. The only people who were able to perform an examination on his eyes at the outset was an institute on sleep disorders.
The really strange thing was that there was no loud boom only a very loud crackling and buzzing sound. Must have been inside the compression zone or something.
She’ll put a charge in your bumbershoot.
The pine in northern Wisconsin must be more dense than what we have growing wild here, scrub pine practically explodes when struck by lightning, so does poplar. Old folks out in the country say poplar “draws” lightning because they’ve got so much water in them. Say the same about dogs too, no idea where that comes from. Chaining them to trees, probably.
Actually the tree was a red-pine planted by my dad in the mid 60’s. They’re very wet right under the bark where the thin membrane separates the bark from the core. Very wet and heavy until they dry out. It was probably 60 feet tall at the time and still has the scar 10 years later
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