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Holy shit.
Your yard got hulk smashed by the fist of an angry god! |
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So standing under a tree during a storm for shelter is a bad idea?
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Holy crap!!!
Glad you are okay and your house didn't catch fire!! |
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Damn.
I've seen a tree explode from a lightning strike before - literally 30ft in front of me. I was behind a glass door - but in this case the tree was no more than10ft tall, maybe a 2-3" trunk. Scared me to death since I had just put my hand on the door to push it open to head out with the My parents have some gigantic (3+ story) mesquite trees in their backyard, one of them suffered a lightning strike back in '85 - it only took out half of one main branch though. Never seen an entire tree get taken out like that. Would imagine insurance will cover all of your hardware that was fried. |
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OP, where was this in KY? I'm in Owensboro. We had a lot of lightning last night as well.
@ the pics When I was a teen, my parents neighbor had their house struck by lightning, twice each instance was two years apart. Chimney, both times. Took off about 3 feet of the brick from the top of the chimney. Sent it flying about 150ft or so. Fried all of his phone lines. Had to have all the phone lines re run in the house. I came to respect lightning at a young age. I was 14 or so and on the porch watching the lightning with my dad. All of a sudden everything flashed bright white and the loudest boom I have ever heard in my life. Pine tree in the back yard got nailed. I pissed myself, litterally. It was so loud and frightened me that badly. |
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I saw that happen to a very large incense cedar tree about 50 yards in front of me one time. It was VERY impressive. I was backpacking in the Sierra Nevada mountains with some friends.
We decided it was time to hunker down for the evening. |
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Cut and season the wood if you have a fireplace or outdoor fire pit.
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Impressive, I take it you will be buying a surge protector in the near future?
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Awesome display of mother nature.
I had a pine tree on a fence line explode like that. 4-5 fence posts on either side also exploded...50' in both directions. |
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Sap flashing to steam is a real mother! This. And if you are standing under the tree when the current gets nearby YOU are a much better conductor than the sap. Side flash from tree to that nice saltwater conductor on the way to the earth. Results in dead person in many cases. |
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Lightning huh... Ya i remember the first time i played with Tannerite too. |
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Excellent! Tests on the new targeting system for the Halliburton Weather Machine are complete and successful. On to the next phase!
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Quoted: most impressive very much so. Glad everyone is alright. |
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I saw lightning do that to a cedar tree on a golf course once.
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holy shit thats crazy. Glad no one was hurt, I would have probably shit my pants if i would have been near that
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I'm in louisville and we had some gnarly lightning last night. Glad there were no injuries op.
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It fucking figures.
The government says I can't have high explosives, yet they just let that weather shit do whatever the hell it wants. Some animals are more equal, it seems. |
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Deer hunting in the UP one year I came upon a cedar tree that had been hit by lightening.
It looked similar to these pictures. The tree had been blown into shards, toothpick like pieces, spears, some of them driven a foot or more into the ground. Some were five to six feet long. I wish now that I had saved some of the spears, and not lost the pictures. |
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Admit it, you left your glock fo-tay in the tree and it just went off!
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This is truly a cool story, perhaps for the 1st time in internet history!
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What kind of mental illness does it take to talk to trees? |
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Quoted: What kind of mental illness does it take to talk to trees? Usefulus Idiotus. Very terrible disease. |
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