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Lightning Strikes Car and Home [A must see pic of the car after ZOTTING!]
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| 5-5-05
| Alex Cabrero
Posted on 05/06/2005 8:50:15 AM PDT by OXENinFLA
A rock chip this isn't! How about a lightning bolt! It's what's left of a Salt Lake woman's windshield after lightning struck as she was driving down a highway.
Lightning is the number one natural killer in Utah so she's lucky to be alive, and what a story she has. One minute she's driving down the highway, the next she's pulled over after lightning ripped through her car.
If the chances of getting struck by lightning are slim, then getting hit two times should be near impossible. That means Aline Devaud of Millcreek shouldn't ever have to worry about it again. As if Mother Nature hasn't done enough to Utah this year, now she's picking on people.
Aline Devaud: “Pretty amazing, but I’m lucky.”
Lucky because Aline Devaud was driving her car when a big bolt of lightning came through the top.
Aline Devaud: “I thought the tire had blown out. My car was just in the shop yesterday, so I thought, ‘those darn mechanics. What did they do wrong?’ (laughs).” Lightning Victim
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She can laugh now, but at the time it wasn't funny at all. Her windshield is half gone, her airbags popped out, and her side mirror is blown off. And the road she was on was damaged after the lightning went through her car. Jay Watkins, Utah Highway Patrol: “I can’t believe it. Absolutely, I’m still amazed by it.”
Shirley Ayrton is amazed too.
Shirley Ayrton, Lightning Victim: “Definitely the loudest thing I’ve ever experienced.
Lightning came down the chimney of her South Jordan home and ripped apart some tiles.
Shirley Ayrton: “I was amazed. I just didn’t think lightning would travel down a chimney and come into your home.”
Yeah, lightning can do that, and as we saw, it can come through a moving car too. Fortunately, both victims are okay, shaken up but okay.
TOPICS: Miscellaneous; US: Utah
KEYWORDS: cage; car; darkshearesfault; emp; faraday; faradaycage; lemp; lightning; zap; zot; zotmeharder; zottedwhiledriving
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If that was my car I'd need to change my shorts after that!
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posted on
05/06/2005 8:50:18 AM PDT
by
OXENinFLA
To: Mo1; Howlin; Peach; BeforeISleep; kimmie7; 4integrity; BigSkyFreeper; RandallFlagg; ...
Gotta see this pic ping....
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posted on
05/06/2005 8:50:54 AM PDT
by
OXENinFLA
("And that [Atomic] bomb is a filibuster" ~~~ Sen. Lieberman 1-4-95)
To: OXENinFLA
Well, there goes the myth that you are safe from lightening in a car...
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posted on
05/06/2005 8:50:58 AM PDT
by
mnehring
(http://www.mlearningworld.com)
To: mnehrling
I wish they included a pic of the road damage.
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posted on
05/06/2005 8:52:44 AM PDT
by
OXENinFLA
("And that [Atomic] bomb is a filibuster" ~~~ Sen. Lieberman 1-4-95)
To: OXENinFLA
Guess I just needed to look elsewhere.........
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posted on
05/06/2005 8:55:29 AM PDT
by
OXENinFLA
("And that [Atomic] bomb is a filibuster" ~~~ Sen. Lieberman 1-4-95)
To: OXENinFLA
Wow! Set off the air-bag too!
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posted on
05/06/2005 8:56:38 AM PDT
by
poobear
To: OXENinFLA
I wouldn't think this was possible. The car should be insulated from the ground by the tires.
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posted on
05/06/2005 8:57:41 AM PDT
by
Bacon Man
(I wanna live to see how global warming turns out. I have an inside tip it's all a load of crap.)
To: Jim Robinson; Lead Moderator; Admin Moderator; Sidebar Moderator
To: OXENinFLA; Brad's Gramma; pollywog
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posted on
05/06/2005 8:58:48 AM PDT
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(This tagline no longer operative....floated away in the flood of 2005 ,)
To: OXENinFLA
A few years back, a family driving down a local road here suffered a direct hit on their car by a lightening bolt. Blew out all four tires, fried the electrical system and scared the crap out of the poor folks inside. Fortunately, all survived. Scary stuff.
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posted on
05/06/2005 8:59:09 AM PDT
by
reagan_fanatic
(It takes all kinds of critters...to make Farmer Vincents fritters)
To: OXENinFLA
I was traveling with a friend in a station wagon with a big aluminum canoe on top when we got hit with lightning. It sure did bad things to the vehicle's electrical system and my ears were ringing for hours afterwords.
But I think Faraday saved our bacon that day.
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posted on
05/06/2005 8:59:23 AM PDT
by
avg_freeper
(Gunga galunga. Gunga, gunga galunga)
To: Admin Moderator
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posted on
05/06/2005 8:59:36 AM PDT
by
Lead Moderator
(<--- Rogue Lead Moderator, so watch out!)
To: Admin Moderator; NormsRevenge; MeekOneGOP
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posted on
05/06/2005 8:59:41 AM PDT
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(This tagline no longer operative....floated away in the flood of 2005 ,)
To: Admin Moderator
I am glad to hear it was not an errant ZOT!!
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posted on
05/06/2005 8:59:59 AM PDT
by
Jersey Republican Biker Chick
(People too weak to follow their own dreams, will always find a way to discourage yours.)
To: reagan_fanatic
This lightning stuff is obviously dangerous and must be banned for the sake of the children.
I think Kalifornia should be the first to ban that health hazard.
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posted on
05/06/2005 9:00:14 AM PDT
by
boofus
To: OXENinFLA
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posted on
05/06/2005 9:00:17 AM PDT
by
areafiftyone
(Politicians Are Like Diapers, Both Need To Be Changed Often And For The Same Reason!)
To: OXENinFLA
This woman should go buy a lottery ticket.
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posted on
05/06/2005 9:00:22 AM PDT
by
Snardius
To: Bacon Man
Air is more or less as good of an insulator as a tire's rubber. And lightning travels through air.
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posted on
05/06/2005 9:01:46 AM PDT
by
avg_freeper
(Gunga galunga. Gunga, gunga galunga)
To: Admin Moderator
psst! You need target practice. That was awful.
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posted on
05/06/2005 9:02:13 AM PDT
by
Lead Moderator
(<--- Rogue Lead Moderator, so watch out!)
To: OXENinFLA
Who can she sue? Someone has got to be sued here.
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