The Cellar - View Single Post - 8/11/2005: Lightning strikes airliner (with animation link)

mlandman · 08-12-2005, 08:42 AM

Two points:

(1) I live near Manchester, NH, and our neighborhood happens to have 5 pilots. They've all had their planes hit by lightning.

(2) I've had it come up through my feet and out my hands before, when it struck my driveway about 50 feet away from where I was standing. Knocked me to the ground. Yep, dumbass here was standing INSIDE his slightly-wet concrete-floored GARAGE (watching the electrical storm) when I picked up a FIBERGLASS broom handle with plastic whiskers, to give a couple quick pushes to a puddle that was forming at the edge of the garage, just underneath the garage door (rain was pouring, and some of it making it inside the threshold). Yes, VERY un-smart. Bolt likely ran through water channels underground, only to jump up through my feet and out my hands. Had 5-6 quick jolts in succession, HURT. Was fine.

-mike

08-12-2005, 08:42 AM	#16
mlandman Coronation Incarnate Join Date: Dec 2001 Posts: 87	often Two points: (1) I live near Manchester, NH, and our neighborhood happens to have 5 pilots. They've all had their planes hit by lightning. (2) I've had it come up through my feet and out my hands before, when it struck my driveway about 50 feet away from where I was standing. Knocked me to the ground. Yep, dumbass here was standing INSIDE his slightly-wet concrete-floored GARAGE (watching the electrical storm) when I picked up a FIBERGLASS broom handle with plastic whiskers, to give a couple quick pushes to a puddle that was forming at the edge of the garage, just underneath the garage door (rain was pouring, and some of it making it inside the threshold). Yes, VERY un-smart. Bolt likely ran through water channels underground, only to jump up through my feet and out my hands. Had 5-6 quick jolts in succession, HURT. Was fine. -mike