Re: Lightning Strike (fwd)

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Original poster: <sroys@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>



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Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 08:21:10 -0600
From: Gomez Addams <gomez@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: High Voltage list <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Lightning Strike (fwd)


On Jun 23, 2005, at 8:22 PM, High Voltage list wrote:

> Original poster: <sroys@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 16:31:50 +0930
> From: Matthew Smith <matt@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: High Voltage list <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Lightning Strike
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> Hi All
>
> We had a too-close-for-comfort lightning strike yesterday - just under
> 500m from the house.
>
> If you want to see what a few MJ can do to a fencepost, here's the  
> damage:
> <http://www.mss.cx/blog/images/lightning-damage-winter-solstice-2005/>
>
> We were lucky - nothing was knocked out by the EMP.

  I don't know whether your soil has the right composition to form  
them but you have GOT to look for
fulgurites!

  Glad nobody got hurt.

  About a decade ago, lightning struck a fence here in Colorado, and  
killed about two dozen cattle that were huddled against it.

  - gomez

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