Lightning strikes?

[Dave 123]

http://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2007/apr/07/weekend7.weekend1

I used to kayak with the brother of this lad^^^

Apparently he's never been quite right since. Very sad.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Very sad

 

[Drago]

When I were a wee bairn I was indoors looking out the window during a storm. A neighbour parked up and took a shortcut on foot across the gardens to avoid getting too wet, and I saw the lightning strike about 10 feet in front of him, may be 30' from the window I was watching from. We both crapped our selves.

 

[sight-pin]

Reminds me this record.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyRqdzF8swY

 

[summerdays]

The platform at Burnham train station lightning hit the other platform opposite. I'd just been to the dentist and he a tooth pulled out so didn't have full control of my functions. (Hate the dentist) with a heavily injected and sore numb mouth I manged to bite a chunk out of my tongue. And worse make a pathetic little scream when the lightning hit.

Burnham only has the one platform? The trains stop either side of it. (Years and years ago my dentist used to be at the top of the hill when you came out of the station.)

 

[Accy cyclist]

"Lightning Roy" got hit seven times and survived them all.

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Has he ever won the national lottery?

 

[Levo-Lon]

Our holiday cottage was hit in Cornwall the other year..
leccy off for a few hrs..But the noise was awsome when it hit..
cant say id like a direct hit on my chrome dome..

 

[Drago]

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PTNzuBh6zTg

 

[mybike]

The nearest I've ever been to a lightning strike was many years ago when I was a GPO Telephone Engineer apprentice. I was walking about 20 ft from the base of the Post Office tower, on Lionel Street in Birmingham, when it was struck. The discharge earthed through the conductor on my side of the tower. All I remember is my hair standing on end, having a really 'weird' feeling all over and a very loud noise. I was uninjured though.
I am currently sitting through a thunder storm in my caravan, on a CL site in the Cotswolds. The storm appears to have just about cleared now. One strike had a simultaneous flash and bang and appeared to hit ground somewhere near a small copse about 100 yds away.
This set me thinking; how close can you be to a lightning strike without harm and what are the chances of being hit and surviving?
I have to say that lightning doesn't bother me, I actually find it quite fascinating.
My dog on the other hand.......

If you take into account the current flowing through a lightning conductor & the envision the magnetic field, and hence the induced currents in adjacent conductors, the 'strange feeling' can be easily understood.

 

[sight-pin]

Just make sure your not travelling at 88 mph in a DeLorean.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEBX6I3XuJ0

 

[jonny jeez]

One escaped injury and one had 3rd degree burns, but both survived - interesting story

http://www.nbcnews.com/health/decad...to-still-reminder-lightning-danger-6C10791362

That's good to hear

 

[jefmcg]

That's good to hear

The bit that touched me was younger brother, who was hit directly and suffered 3rd degree burns, eventually committed suicide fourteen years later.

Of course, it may be unrelated, but it seems sadder somehow, surviving a lightning strike to fall that way.

 

[classic33]

The bit that touched me was younger brother, who was hit directly and suffered 3rd degree burns, eventually committed suicide fourteen years later.

Of course, it may be unrelated, but it seems sadder somehow, surviving a lightning strike to fall that way.

"Lightning Roy" shot himself.

 

[slowmotion]

Here's an article that has a brief paragraph about the hair standing on end thing.

http://www.wildbackpacker.com/wilderness-survival/articles/surviving-a-lightning-storm/

I was caught on a mountain ridge with an electrical storm approaching once. You feel utterly naked and vulnerable. It veered away and I was fine but I'll never forget the fear. Horrible.

 

[TVC]

Closest for me was during my days as a student. At the end of lectures I was walking home past the Poly library in a heavy rain storm. Suddenly I felt my hair stiffen and my forearms tingle. Everyone around me felt the same and stopped dead. There was a flash with a gunshot bang at the same time. The lightning conductor on the library had been hit. We were all 10-30M away and felt the streamers hunting off our extremeties before the flash over occured. A very focussing moment.

That's close enough for me.

Sadly a couple of years ago a sunday morning footballer playing next to where I work was hit during a match. His demise was immediate, it must have been horrible for everyone else there.