Lightning Regulations

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I know during junior golf golf tournaments, it was a 10 mile radius for most every tournament org we played in, with a 30 minute window of no violating strikes before resuming. I know it's not a tree, but the idea being that in that wide open space on some courses, YOU might be the path of least resistance. Some courses used 8 miles for regular play, but. There were a few phone apps that I saw being used by players, coaches, and officials out on the course.

EDIT: The 10 mile rule is what I follow just because I trust it. We have used several weather apps along the way and they all pretty much give you the same info.
 
Wow... This is so rare around here it never crosses my mind... I'd venture a guess that less than 1 in 10 lighting storms around here strike ground, most are just cloud to cloud. Many years we will skip a good thunderstorm all together.
 
Golf courses around here are great lightning attractors. Several of them help keep us busy with lightning trees. Some of the worst I've ever seen has been on a golf course. I can usually see storms from the tree before they get too close. I don't like playing around with it. I'll get down and do some ground work if it starts getting close. I was stepping through a barbed wire fence that got struck about a half mile down a few years ago. It's nothing to mess with.
 
oldoakman said:
I witnesses a lightening strike on a relatively clear day. The strike hit a sweet gum and jumped to the house and started a fire. The house was vacant.
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When I lived in Tucson I drove past a church and saw lighting strike the steeple.. I was about 100' away.. I'm very afraid to step into a church that will likely be an atomic strike

We inspected a lighting struck Doug fir about 20' from a house. Same thing, we figured it side flashed (or arched) to the house, where it struck a beam. It blew the beam out on the inside of the house flinging a chunk of wood across the room breaking the wall clock. I wouldn't have believed it unless I was there!
 
evo said:
When I lived in Tucson I drove past a church and saw lighting strike the steeple.. I was about 100' away.. I'm very afraid to step into a church that will likely be an atomic strike
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I was driving from Michigan to Philly, I made it about 50 miles and I saw lightening hit a billboard out of my right eye. The bad thing is that it was at night and it burnt my eye, I saw the lightening as it occurred into the next day. It was a long drive to the east coast in the dark with one eye not working well.
 
chipper1 said:
I was driving from Michigan to Philly, I made it about 50 miles and I saw lightening hit a billboard out of my right eye. The bad thing is that it was at night and it burnt my eye, I saw the lightening as it occurred into the next day. It was a long drive to the east coast in the dark with one eye not working well.
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I got hit by lightning while driving my SUV in mid-Michigan. The bolt went in through the antenna at the top rear and out to ground at the front passenger door, where it blew the rocker panel halfway off. Vaporized the antenna and fried my alternator but no other damage. I was in a torrential rain that slowed everyone on the expressway to about 30 mph. Struck just as I drove on to an overpass.
 
Tuebor said:
I got hit by lightning while driving my SUV in mid-Michigan. The bolt went in through the antenna at the top rear and out to ground at the front passenger door, where it blew the rocker panel halfway off. Vaporized the antenna and fried my alternator but no other damage. I was in a torrential rain that slowed everyone on the expressway to about 30 mph. Struck just as I drove on to an overpass.
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Hey there sparky
 
JJM IV said:
Had a close one today with nearby lightning. Are there specific regulations related to tree care and lightning? Thx--
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The crane operator that i use mentioned the other day that he got fined for being in the air with lightning near (within 10 miles I think is what he said) he pushed his luck a little trying to get the last pick of the day completed and got caught. Not sure of any documentation supporting that distance or if it only has to do with cranes.
 
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I don’t know..... could be a frost crack.;)

You guys all know the best defense in a lightning storm, right? Hold a 2 iron up as high as you can. Not even God can hit a 2 iron. Ba-dum chhh.

Thank you.
 
I was in the top of a small-medium 60 foot pine once some years ago and lightning hit a huge poplar less then 75 feet from the tree I was in.
We could tell the storm was coming but the sky was still blue over us. I had just finished my undercut on the top. Turned my saw off to communicate with the ground and then the poplar exploded. Sent some decent sized debris our way and everyone dove for cover. (except for me, of course). Everyone was ok, but I had a huge adrenaline rush going on, ears ringing like crazy, weird smells in the air.. After calming myself and taking a deep breath I decided I should go ahead and take the top before I retreated because it was already notched. I still remember the look of confusion from ground crew when I said "ready or not here comes the top" and cranked the saw back up lol. We came back the next day to take the spar and clean up, and got hired to pull down what was left of the poplar. It still smelled toasted the next day.
 
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