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Saved by my iPod: Girl survives lightning strike after wire diverts 300,000 volts
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| 19th June 2009
| Daily Mail
Posted on 06/19/2009 3:10:13 PM PDT by AngieGal
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To: B-Chan
Which, I suspect, is why we and other like minded folks all live in Texas. :D
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posted on
06/20/2009 2:32:13 AM PDT
by
Spktyr
(Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
To: AngieGal
A couple days ago we had a bad storm system pass through our area in East Tennessee. A 14 year old girl the next county over from me got hit in the hand by lightning. Obviously it wasn't a direct hit but was very close. She was taken to a local hospital to be checked but was fine. The report was she was at the doorway at her house going inside I think.
I have some nice tall lightning attractors up behind my house now. TVA high voltage transmission line steel towers. Every storm that passes over pops them at least once.
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posted on
06/20/2009 2:51:02 AM PDT
by
cva66snipe
(Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgement? Which one say ye?)
To: pabianice
well that all depends on how much time it had to divert 300,000 volts over doesn’t it..
There is no way that it took all 300,000V but you would be amaze what a wire could do for a tenth of a second. It very well amy have saved her life..
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posted on
06/20/2009 8:16:56 AM PDT
by
N3WBI3
(Ah, arrogance and stupidity all in the same package. How efficient of you. -- Londo Mollari)
To: grjr21
unless you generate an arc for .1-.5 seconds that does not mean anything..
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posted on
06/20/2009 8:19:19 AM PDT
by
N3WBI3
(Ah, arrogance and stupidity all in the same package. How efficient of you. -- Londo Mollari)
To: grjr21; RFEngineer
Well if you want to get *really* technical the lightning would have went through both her and the wire in proportions inverse to their impedance.
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posted on
06/20/2009 8:20:35 AM PDT
by
N3WBI3
(Ah, arrogance and stupidity all in the same package. How efficient of you. -- Londo Mollari)
To: Right Wing Assault
and they are right but to say ‘it was not the wire that saved here it was the vaporized wire’ is being jut a bit too picky don’t you think?
There is no doubt the wire did not survive the ordeal..
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posted on
06/20/2009 8:22:50 AM PDT
by
N3WBI3
(Ah, arrogance and stupidity all in the same package. How efficient of you. -- Londo Mollari)
To: exist
You know I finally got around to watching Twilight. I wish I could have those two hours back. It was drab.
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posted on
06/20/2009 12:49:51 PM PDT
by
coconutt2000
(NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
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