close lightning strikes

[skew]

still in the land of big Cotton trees here with monsoon flow starting up. Every time I buckle my harness it starts up. Yesterday I was just starting up in the bucket and a big close one came down to ground. We dusted off immediately and one the way home passed a bunch of emergency vehicles. A woman got struck on the golf course a mile or less from where we were. I don't have a link but there is brief description in the Durango Herald should anyone be interested.
Bottom line is that I felt like we were right on getting out of there but it's scary how that stuff just creeps right up on ya in the mountains.

 

[Chum]

Mountains, praries, residential streets or the middle of the ocean...

Never wait until your counting distance using sound lets you believe the strikes are coming soon - they have a way of hitting long before the storm comes.

Ask Nathan!!

 

[Jamin_Mayer]

Absolutely.

And we have to beware of Bolts From The Blue

 

[Jamin_Mayer]

Stay away from metal fences when lighting is present. These poor guys didn't.

http://www.lightningsafety.noaa.gov/images/Cows_Fence.jpg

 

[Colin]

I wonder what they were all doing hanging out at the fence together like that? Gabbing about the weather, no doubt!


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[trees4ever]

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I wonder what they were all doing hanging out at the fence together like that? Gabbing about the weather, no doubt!



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Well, MB, you know the saying:
The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence... ahemm....except in this case!

-Diane-