Leroy, I've take peripheral lightning hits twice. Burns and whole-body muscle spasms that HURT. I golf, and I do NOT mess with lightning. I figure the third time will not be my charm!
Leroy, I've take peripheral lightning hits twice. Burns and whole-body muscle spasms that HURT. I golf, and I do NOT mess with lightning. I figure the third time will not be my charm!
Lucky dood. Usually those step charges go in one leg and out the other rather then a path through the heart. Even then there's no telling. Knew a ham operator who had an antenna hit by lightning. Coax was open so he started trimming to bypass the burned part - couldn't see any damage. Turned out that the center conductor was burned open exactly every so many inches for the wholel ength of the transmission line. Strange stuff.
The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh
Usually distant thunder is the first clue. Then progressively closer.....a little more......maybe a little more.
After the 2nd distant rumble, I start back to the truck if...uhhh, I'm 1/8 mile out.
That's my typical protocol for turkey hunting with an 835 mossberg lightning rod or being way out in a plowed field.
* in no way am I implying that golf fans are morons
^^^This^^^
I’ve even left my old 870 laying out in the middle of a field before when lightning and thunder moved in and I hauled ass for the truck.
I saw lightning hit our combine that Dad was standing on once when we were harvesting wheat when I was in HS. I told him I was getting my ass in the truck. It hit about 3 minutes after I got in the truck. He was damn lucky that day. Just knocked him silly and shook him up pretty good. But he never made that mistake again. 🤠
"Allways speak the truth and you will never have to remember what you said before..." Sam Houston Texans, "We say Grace, We Say Mam, If You Don't Like it, We Don't Give a Damn!"
I thought all those tournaments had weather people that monitor the local radar and National Weather Service data constantly. At a local event around here last year they cleared everyone off the course and there was nothing threatening in sight but I guess it was heading in their direction. Better safe than sorry. Glad to hear nobody got killed.
There is a tree on my course that was struck last year and survived. Then it was struck again this year and killed. Then I got to looking more closely and there are three other trees within a hundred yards or so right along that same fairway edge that have been struck in the last year or two.
I know the last place in the world I will ever go in the event of a storm.
"Allways speak the truth and you will never have to remember what you said before..." Sam Houston Texans, "We say Grace, We Say Mam, If You Don't Like it, We Don't Give a Damn!"
Rule to follow: if you can hear thunder, you're in danger of being hit by lightning.
Many other factors of course, but that's the place to start.
Damn Straight! Good rule to follow!!!
"Allways speak the truth and you will never have to remember what you said before..." Sam Houston Texans, "We say Grace, We Say Mam, If You Don't Like it, We Don't Give a Damn!"
Leroy, I've take peripheral lightning hits twice. Burns and whole-body muscle spasms that HURT. I golf, and I do NOT mess with lightning. I figure the third time will not be my charm!
Take a tip from Chi Chi Rodriguez. "Not even God can hit a 1 iron."
I am..........disturbed.
Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass. -Twain
You're not always safe indoors either! I know a lady that was on a land line (old type) phone during a thunder storm, and lightening struck close to her house and went into her brain through the phone line. She was never quite the same. She had symptoms like a stroke and had to learn how to walk and talk again, and lost most of her memories of her children, etc. After that our family is really careful about phones and household plumbing during storms.
Lightning can hit with no warning. Somewhere will get the first bolt.
Always poo pooed lightning. Seen the damage, understood it, But the odds, come on, get real.
Big storm here one day, grilling supper outside the basement door. Pouring rain, thunder, I move the grill so I can stand inside, grill out. Water getting in on the cement, I'm barefoot. Standing there about 2 feet from the furnace, about 5 foot from the chimney.
Now we're eating supper, lightning everywhere hellish. Huge flash of light, house shakes, I think it hit behind the neighbors. Eat a bite, someone beats on my door, then starts jerking on the knob. I open it, the neighbor rushes in worked up. He is talking a mile a minute, "Youallok? Wheresyourdog"?
I ask what's wrong, "Lightninghityourhouse"
"No" i said, "behind the other neighbors".
"You better look, your chimney is gone".
Bricks everywhere, split right to the foundation.
I had just moved away from there, barefoot, on a wet cement floor.
The odds?
NO ONE showers or does any risky stuff with lightning in my house, anymore!
Parents who say they have good kids..Usually don't!
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