8/11/2005: Lightning strikes airliner (with animation link) - Page 2

BigV · 08-12-2005, 01:32 AM

Hiya fredorpaul, welcome to the posting side of the cellar. You know the drill. The poster who stands up will be hammered down. Or struck by lightning. Post away!

Slurpy · 08-12-2005, 05:37 AM

Wouldn't be surprised if a few of the passengers wanted to Nippoff after that.

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

Slurpy · 08-12-2005, 09:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mlandman

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

Lucky escape...

That'll teach you for trying to use any sort of cleaning device...

glatt · 08-12-2005, 09:49 AM

My aunt sometimes tells the story of when she was washing her hair in the kitchen sink during a thunderstorm. Lightning struck the hill behind her house. Some of the current found the pipe that leads from the natural spring on the hill down to the house. She gets a shock that throws her across the room and splatters shampoo foam all over the walls and ceiling of the kitchen. She was stunned, but otherwise OK.

I annoy my wife and kids, because I won't let them use the bathroom during a thunderstorm. Something about those cast iron vent pipes poking up slightly into the sky above the roof of our house makes me nervous.

mlandman · 08-12-2005, 10:25 AM

I had one of these taken OUT of my arm just 5 days prior: youch!

I shudder to think of what would have happened if it was in my arm at the time all the electricity ran through it.

lol probably nothing, I don't really understand ohms vs volts vs capacitance, etc, but still the thought scares me....

-mike

08-12-2005, 01:32 AM	#1
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	Hiya fredorpaul, welcome to the posting side of the cellar. You know the drill. The poster who stands up will be hammered down. Or struck by lightning. Post away! __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

08-12-2005, 08:42 AM	#3
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

08-12-2005, 10:25 AM	#6
mlandman Coronation Incarnate Join Date: Dec 2001 Posts: 87	and to boot... I had one of these taken OUT of my arm just 5 days prior: youch! I shudder to think of what would have happened if it was in my arm at the time all the electricity ran through it. lol probably nothing, I don't really understand ohms vs volts vs capacitance, etc, but still the thought scares me.... -mike

08-12-2005, 05:37 AM	#2
Slurpy Recruit or Something Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 4	Wouldn't be surprised if a few of the passengers wanted to Nippoff after that.

08-12-2005, 09:49 AM	#5
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	My aunt sometimes tells the story of when she was washing her hair in the kitchen sink during a thunderstorm. Lightning struck the hill behind her house. Some of the current found the pipe that leads from the natural spring on the hill down to the house. She gets a shock that throws her across the room and splatters shampoo foam all over the walls and ceiling of the kitchen. She was stunned, but otherwise OK. I annoy my wife and kids, because I won't let them use the bathroom during a thunderstorm. Something about those cast iron vent pipes poking up slightly into the sky above the roof of our house makes me nervous.

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