Posted on 03/07/2024 11:06:37 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
Nice story and SO nice you remember mama being there to comfort you!
Idiots. Yeah, it’s imminent. That happened to me at Pike’s Peak with my arm hair (not so much on the head at my age) and we had to quickly jump right back in the car.
In West Glacier, a huge thunderstorm came ripping up the valley at night.
BOOOOOOOMMMMMMM!!!!!!!
SPARKS flew out of all the sockets lighting up the cabin brighter than day.
In the morning, we saw the tree 20 feet from our cabin had been blown to pieces, with chunks 100 feet away.
Thanks, she was a real gem. One of the world’s best Mamas.
The initial high temperature and pressure inside the lightning channel cause the oxygen in the air to react with the other gases.Nitrogen, which makes up 78% of the atmosphere (see Chapter 1), oxidizes inside the ionized lightning path to become various oxides of nitrogen (NOx). During rainout, the NOx can fall as acid rain (nitric acid), which hurts the plants and acidifies streams and lakes on the short term. But over the long term, the NOx rained out can help fertilize the soil to encourage plant growth.
Even the oxygen molecules (O2) can be oxidized within the lightning channel to become ozone (O3), which we smell in the air as a sharp or fresh odor. Sometimes this odor is carried down and out from the thunderstorm by the downburst and outflow winds, which we can smell when the gust front passes just before the thunderstorm arrives.
Because of all this oxidation, we can say that lightning causes the air to burn.
that actually happened to me once out on my boat!! I had no clue what it was at the time but soon found out when I came in later and when I got home, googled it. I should have ran out and bought a lottery ticket!!
I would quickly dig a grave and lie down it in — just in case I got hit would save on funeral costs. And don’t forget to throw the metal shovel a few yards away.
My house is the highest point in the town I live. I have replaced 3 well pumps, well pump controls, 2 microwaves, 2 washers, 4 TV’s, 2 boiler controls, numerous outlets, radios,, and computors electronics etc, all due to lightning strikes, not fun.
That is not what it says.
Yes it is.
Mine: That is not what it says.
You: Yes it is.
Below is a paste from the article. For the reading challenged, sitting is different from standing.
“Crouch down to make yourself the smallest target possible, then lift your feet so you're only sitting on your toes. "
Standing
Sitting
We had a guy in my hometown who died when he was struck by lightning. Fast forward 20 years and his son is in the front yard enjoying a barbecue. A storm brews up and he tell the friend next to him, It won’t hit me, my dad died that way. Seconds later he is struck by lightning and dies.
The poor dear...I see a direct circuit path through those conductive metallic spikes. She’s done for if she goes outside like that. She needs your gentle assistance to get her safely back inside.
LOL, that “sitting on your toes” is a great way to prevent getting hit by lightning. I could do that for maybe 0.5 seconds, though.
Wow, bad karma!
The worst is “clear air lightning” where lightning can strike up to 25 miles from its cloud of origin on a clear day, traveling a horizontal route before it eventually reaches the ground.
She looks like close to a ten in the kitchen, then the lightning must have really changed her?
Lived to tell at least...👍
Divine intervention, I’m convinced-a lot of people who get struck don’t survive, or end up permanently injured-I was thrown into a wall and knocked completely out for a few minutes-the charge came down the antenna wire to the stereo and into my left hand and arm when I was turning on the stereo-it burned my arm, hand, but I did not have any permanent damage. I still have the T-shirt my hubby had made for me that says I survived lightning...
Oh, my word. Outdoors in the city is a whole lot worse for POCs than anyplace whatsoever in the wildnerness.
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