Lightening strike

[k0ua]

Here is a good thread to remind us of dealing with high voltage power lines and how to "shuffle our feet" to escape the danger.

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/...e-safety-procedures.html?highlight=power+line

 

[cqaigy2]

explosion in a river (re post Lightning strikes a river) - YouTube

That video always reminds me of how much power is in lightning.

Don't think that was lightning.

 

[k0ua]

Don't think that was lightning.

Look carefully at the six second mark in the film. That is a lightning bolt.

 

[Deere Dude]

Yep.

I think it was back in 2013 and I needed to go split some firewood. ...

Not sure I would have survived if I had been splitting wood that day.

NO clouds in the sky and that front was 20-30 miles away...

Might just be me, but that was kinda scary and worrisome.

Lightning is some bad stuff...

Later,
Dan

Thanks for posting that example. I may take heed of lightening better because of it. We live in a hollow with tall trees all over the place and many times I have seen lightening and then heard thunder 2-4 seconds later and figured I will mosey out to the garage because that lightening is at least a couple miles away and not around me.

 

[k0ua]

Thanks for posting that example. I may take heed of lightening better because of it. We live in a hollow with tall trees all over the place and many times I have seen lightening and then heard thunder 2-4 seconds later and figured I will mosey out to the garage because that lightening is at least a couple miles away and not around me.

The sound travels at around 1200 feet per second, so you can kinda figure from there, but electricity travels at around 186000 miles a second. Keep in mind for every lightning bolt in the air you see and hear, an equalizing current is flowing in the ground to equalize that bolt. Currents can flow in the ground for a long distance. That bolt that hit the bank and flowed into the river causing the river to boil out steam and churn up the bottom was an equalization current.

 

[JRobyn]

Look carefully at the six second mark in the film. That is a lightning bolt.

Not according to Snopes. It was a controlled explosion performed by a Finnish mining company.

 

[TemporaryKubotaOwnerMark]

explosion in a river (re post Lightning strikes a river) - YouTube

That video always reminds me of how much power is in lightning.

That's not a lightning strike, that's det cord. Somebody was playing.

 

[TemporaryKubotaOwnerMark]

Lightening strike

Wow. Well, maybe the farm jack will be okay. If that's a real Hi-Lift, you can buy a kit with all the wearable components, including the springs, and it's not at all a difficult job to swap in the new parts.


Man, if a Lightening strike does that, what kind of damage would a heavying strike do?

 

[newbury]

Back about '83 I lived in a small 2 story house in Alexandria, Va. There were two large maples out back, each about 3' in diameter.

The lady that later became my wife was making lunch in the kitchen when lighting struck the one that was about 30' from the house. Split the tree in half, roots 20" around were lifted out of the ground, parts of the tree were blown over the house into the front yard.

No damage to future wife or house.

This same lady was at an Attorney's real estate meeting in a highrise in New York on 9/11 and witnessed the planes coming into the towers and them falling.

Took her 4 days to get out of town.

She's been close to danger without getting hurt.

I'm glad she keeps me I feel safe near her.

 

[check]

I was struck by lightning once, at a resort in rural Quebec. I was sleeping in the loft on the second floor, near the metal ceiling of the resort. The lightning struck the tennis court about 100 feet away and I got the residual buzz. I sure felt it, but I was OK. A uncle of mine, however, took a direct hit in the middle of a field in Alberta. It killed him. Ironic. He survived WWII as a soldier (as did my father, my aunt, and another uncle), but was then taken out by mother nature.