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Post by doninnh on Sept 7, 2024 21:12:18 GMT -5
Well that was close.
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Post by lar4570 on Sept 7, 2024 21:29:55 GMT -5
Hope everything is alright?
A couple of years back, there was a big storm moving to the south of our home in Arkansas.
It was putting on quite the light show, so the wife and I got up to watch out of our bedroom window. I was standing with one hand on the window with the wife standing behind me.
A big bolt hit in the field next to the house and I got shocked through the window. I didn't pee, but one of the little dogs did, lol.
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Post by lar4570 on Sept 7, 2024 21:30:40 GMT -5
oops, I thought you said Lightning, not lighting...
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Post by doninnh on Sept 7, 2024 23:44:17 GMT -5
well
Well: I did say Lightning I was in the middle of entering a couple of
picture attachments when that dumped everything. Now it won't go
beyond were the attachments were when it hit , I well have to work on it
Have nice day Don K
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Post by doninnh on Sept 8, 2024 0:13:35 GMT -5
Well: About 7 or 8 years ago I'm seating in my waterfront house
when a bolt probably hit the ground lead in the power drop to the house.
It killed all the wiring in room next to where the drop was hooked to the house ,
then killed 7 or 8 trees between the house and the water. It felt like the house bounced.
I Think that was as close as I ever wan't to get.
Have a nice day Don K.
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Post by bula on Sept 12, 2024 6:50:09 GMT -5
Well, that's no fun ! Glad neither of you injured. We backpacked into the Bob Marshall years ago, to east side of the Divide. We climbed mountain to east of divide, our back to Divide and when we topped out and turned 360 degrees for the view, were shocked to see a T-storm piling over the Divide and already too close now. The Divide blocked our view. So stuck on top, timber couple thousand feet below scree slope. We put back on the extra clothes we had taken off before starting up. We were in the clouds, in the storm in minutes. Hair all standing up, brimstone smell, 1" hail. Lightening bouncing around rocks all around us. We descended faster than safe, many butt slides. We made it down into the timber somehow. After the storm, rest of way down to tent camp below. 1st aid kit narrowly avoided use, elbows, knees and seat worn outta our clothing from falls. The hail made it like running on ball bearings.
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