Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: Zuma on June 23, 2016, 04:57:51 pm
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I was lying in bed in the early hours.
I was counting the seconds between
the flashes and the rumbles.
My mind was trying to calculate the distances. ???
I was dozing off when a flash and KABOOM were
simultaneous. :o
I looked around the house and out at the neighbors houses
to see if anything was on fire. The storm was still raging
but it wasn't going to keep me up all night.
I went out to get the backhoe around mid morning and was
a little surprised to find a shallow trench from the corner of
the barn back to a cedar tree nearby. It's about 50 yds from
my bed to the tree. My ears are still ringing.
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some more.
I hung a small harrow on a limb of the cedar
last year. The energy used it as a path.
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Dang! If the tree had fallen you'd have an extra stave 😂
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distances :)
I am pretty sure the bolt traveled down the
corner post of the barn in the ground, Good
thing the hay and horses are gone.
Zuma
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That's crazy. I'm glad no damage was caused by it.
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Wow...and on a Thor's-day >:D
Glad all o.k.
Ruddy.
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Look for some melted sand to make a point from.
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Thanks for the good wishes guys.
It could have been way worse.
Doubt the tree will make it. :-\
No sand Eddie but the rain did uncover some metal. >:D
Zuma
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Just to show how screwwed up I am: I couldn't help but notice those lovely cobbles that are eroding out from the corner of the building. That quartzite? The one in the center, lined up with the corner, kind of flattish, save that one for me, I'm gonna knap it.
The storm last Friday mostly missed my side of town, but just across the James looked like a war zone.
Keith
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LOL Keith that is what the lightning did not erosion ???
I'll sure save you the rock. I have tons here. nasty stuff. >:D
Glad you dodged the bullet down there.
Zuma
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Look for some melted sand to make a point from.
Dang Eddie you took the words right off my computer! Yeah, there should have been enough heat to melt some sand! Yep, a nice lightening point, would be the ticket. Lot of mojo there. ;)
wayne
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Electrifying post. Glad all but tree are well nothing to lose sleep over.
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Glad to hear you were not fried! The tree will season well where it stands! Use some of that gold to buy a new harrow!
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LOL Keith that is what the lightning did not erosion ???
I'll sure save you the rock. I have tons here. nasty stuff. >:D
Glad you dodged the bullet down there.
Zuma
Ooooh, lightning heat treated quartzite! Sounds valuable, I'll have to find something good to trade for it.
Keith
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Any arrows made from those rocks will need lightning grooves, lol.
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Urufu, You will have to check with Kieth about
messing with those quartzite nasties ::)
True BJ. I lost enough sleep that night. :laugh:
Hi Tom, What is that little weird icon by your avatar? ???
Kieth you should make your own---
Place cobbles over a cedar tree root.
Replace turf.
Cook for less than a nanosecond at a temperature
hotter than the sun.
Check your hair to see if it has turned gray while waiting. >:D
Zuma
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Upon further inspection I found a lot of the soil
blown out of the ditch up on the soffit of the barn.
The door was blown out of the track and the circuit
breaker for the electrical panel was blown back at the
house. X marks where the panel is located inside the barn.
Kaboom
Zuma
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I seen that once on a tree on the lawn.The lightning hit the tree.Went down the tree and blew the sod right off where the roots were.Like you said a flash and crack boom at the same time.Very close.I had 5 pups in a doghouse about 50' away from that tree.Lucky they were fine.
When lightning strikes so close like that you never forget it.I've had lightning strike that close by me 2 other times.Once a place out in the field never grew anything there all summer in a 30' circle that I saw strike.The ground I think got sooooo hot it fried everything.
Lucky you come out of it with not too terrible amount of damage.
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ZumaLike you said a flash and crack boom at the same time.Very close.I had 5 pups in a doghouse about 50' away from that tree.Lucky they were fine.
Now that is friightining, lightning
When lightning strikes so close like that you never forget it.I've had lightning strike that close by me 2 other times.
Good gracious, Yeah I won't forget it. >:D
.The ground I think got sooooo hot it fried everything.
Lucky you come out of it with not too terrible amount of damage.
Yes thank you, it could have been so much worse. I'm blessed.
Oh, so were the pups names--Flash,Boomer,Bright Eyes.Zeus and Skidmark?
Zuma
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They should of been should'nt they......lol.
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I remember one night I perticular. It was one of those 15" of wind and lighting but no rain and we could have used some rain. Wife and I where laying in bed listening to the storm when suddenly in our dark bedroom you could see and hear electricity sparks in the air followed by a huge lighting flash boom symotaniously. Really strange thing is we could never figure out what got hit. Those aren't the kind of sparks you want I the bedroom. lol
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Yes that's very spooky.
Long ago a friend lived on the end of an electric line on a dead end road and his toaster walked across the kitchen table from lightning.
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Yes my wife will never forget those sparks in the bedroom she was shaking for quite awhile after that. Lightning does strange things I've heard of tractors starting up by themselves.
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Can you imagine being hit? Look around the net and you'll find a CCTV video of a guy walking through a park and gets struck by lightning, falls straight to the ground, maybe 20 seconds later he slowly groggily gets up then continues walking maybe 15 yrds and gets struck again! Straight to the ground again, then a few seconds later gets up and continues on his way.
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Can you imagine being hit? Look around the net and you'll find a CCTV video of a guy walking through a park and gets struck by lightning, falls straight to the ground, maybe 20 seconds later he slowly groggily gets up then continues walking maybe 15 yrds and gets struck again! Straight to the ground again, then a few seconds later gets up and continues on his way.
New meaning to Holy Smokes. :o :o
Sky Land on the Blue Ridge very near me is where a Forest Ranger was struck seven times although at different times. :o :o :o :o :o :o :o
BJ I like to be outside when a storm is brewing. I will seriously re-think this.
Maybe we should go back to lightining rods
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I do too Zuma, just something fascinating about a good storm. I guess the closest I've come to getting struck was laying in my bed. One of my neighbors was outside once when storm popped up ran into barn it fell down flat as could be killed him and all the animals inside. I guess when the good lord says your time is up its up.
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I was once stuck in the middle of a lightning storm in a Chevy Luv PU truck. I am not a tiny guy by any means - the lightning was hitting about 10 ft from the truck.... Once the storm slowed down a bit my coworker and I got the heck out of there!