Shaun_300 Posted September 8, 2010 Report Share Posted September 8, 2010 Last night around 10:15 I see the red warning come up at the bottom of my screen saying severe thunderstorm warning. I checked the radar, big blob of red heading straight for us. Dad and I love thunderstorms so we were watching out the upstairs bathroom window with the window open. The lightning was getting closer and closer, started raining a bit and my hand got wet from leaning on the window sill. All of a sudden I could feel static on my hand and a huge bolt of lightning hits in my neighbour's yard. As it did there was a big SNAP and arc that hit my knuckle on my middle finger. It wasn't really intense, similar to getting a zap from a ignition coil or spark plug wire. Made me jump but didn't hurt that bad. Couldn't believe it! I went to move my hand away when I felt the static but it happened so fast. My neighbour's were outside on the lawn watching it, they went in and not 2 minutes later this happened! It was crazy, couldn't believe it! Oh well, could have been worse I guess...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
92xj Posted September 8, 2010 Report Share Posted September 8, 2010 I bet that was shocking! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muff Posted September 8, 2010 Report Share Posted September 8, 2010 I bet that was shocking! That is so bad it should be deleted.....lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
92xj Posted September 8, 2010 Report Share Posted September 8, 2010 That is so bad it should be deleted.....lol Electrifying? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkeygirl Posted September 8, 2010 Report Share Posted September 8, 2010 Driving home from work last night, I'm coming up our road at 11:30pm....had lightening and rain all the way home. Well next thing I know there's a flash to my right then right in front of me that blinded me for a second, it was so bright, then I immediately felt a tingle go up both my arms!!!!! This was about 1 mile from the house....yeah, that was scary! Must have hit really really close... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colorado bob Posted September 8, 2010 Report Share Posted September 8, 2010 Bet it sounded like a cannon going off. I had a ponderosa pine get hit just off my back deck a few years ago. Bark flew everywhere. You can see the path it took down the tree. It was a big boom. CB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybear Posted September 8, 2010 Report Share Posted September 8, 2010 Glad you survived Shaun. Got pretty nasty here too. Worse that's ever happened to me was getting "Thunder Struck"!:rock: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dakota Posted September 9, 2010 Report Share Posted September 9, 2010 Ben, you are cracking me up! Glad you are safe, Shaun! Dakota Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strut10 Posted September 9, 2010 Report Share Posted September 9, 2010 Glad it only winged ya, buddy. That ain't nothing to mess with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doog3 Posted September 9, 2010 Report Share Posted September 9, 2010 i heard u guys were in for nasty storms glad u are ok Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LifeNRA Posted September 9, 2010 Report Share Posted September 9, 2010 Shaun, you better go buy a lottery ticket now! Because you are one lucky individual!!! :jaw: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adjam5 Posted September 9, 2010 Report Share Posted September 9, 2010 Shaun, you better go buy a lottery ticket now! Because you are one lucky individual!!! :jaw: Took the words right out of my post... One lucky dude is right. Buy that Lotto ticket...NOW! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaun_300 Posted September 9, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 9, 2010 I actually bought a crossword scratch ticket tonight after work. We'll see how I do. Yeah the more I think about it the more I realize how lucky I am. Lucky my neighbours went inside because it more than likely would have hit them directly! Could have been deadly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pointing_dogs_rule Posted September 9, 2010 Report Share Posted September 9, 2010 Glad you are alright!! Did it "charge you up" for hunting season?? good luck to all the dog Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruttinbuc Posted September 9, 2010 Report Share Posted September 9, 2010 They always say to stay away from the windows and the plumbing. Glad you are no worse for wear! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBow Posted September 9, 2010 Report Share Posted September 9, 2010 O.K for any of you guys who are old enough to have watched the kids series "RAZZLE DAZZLE" many many moons ago, you'll appreciate when I say that many of the responses in this series of posts are "GROANERS" as coined by Howard the Turtle! :clown: So here's some interesting facts that you can apply next time you see lightning and hear thunder: 1. Sound travels at 1125 ft/sec in dry air at 68 F. 2. That means that sound would travel approximately 1 mile in 4.7 seconds. 3. The speed of light is fast enough to make it virtually negligeable for items seen on this earth. So the next time you see a bolt or flash of lightning, immediately start counting. Just to ball park it, the lightning would have struck a point from you, 1 mile for every 5 seconds you count. As in Shaun's situation, when you see the bolt of lightning and hear the crack of thunder at the same time, it's close. Dang close! Remember the movie "The Great Outdoors" starring John Candy. In that movie there was guy who had been hit by lightning numerous times. His hair was as white as snow if I remember correctly. Here's a quote from the movie as they talked to the lightning guy: Bartender: He's been struck by lightning... how many times has it been now, Reg? Reg: S-s-s-s-s-s-s-six... Chet: Six times? Reg: S-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-six-sixty-sixty-six times. In-n-n-n-n-n-n-In-n-n-n-n-n-n-In-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n the head! So be careful Shaun. Wouldn't want you to become like Reg! TBow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckee Posted September 9, 2010 Report Share Posted September 9, 2010 You got off lucky Shaun. It could have been worse for sure and your neighbours really got off lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redkneck Posted September 9, 2010 Report Share Posted September 9, 2010 Pretty cool Shaun, considering you are still around to post! I was thinking of the same line as T-bow from the Great Outdoors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griz Posted September 9, 2010 Report Share Posted September 9, 2010 Glad it only winged ya, buddy. That ain't nothing to mess with. Amen to that... Glad your alright Shaun... Griz... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeramie Posted September 9, 2010 Report Share Posted September 9, 2010 Thats a lot of power in a pencil sized bolt! That could have ended much worse.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goinghuntin Posted September 9, 2010 Report Share Posted September 9, 2010 I wonder if you are instilled with any superhero powers now... Anyway glad it pretty much missed you Shaun. A kid got struck by lightning 40 miles from me a few weeks back walking home from school. I'm not sure if he made it or not. Nathan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBow Posted September 9, 2010 Report Share Posted September 9, 2010 About 10 years ago I was working on an island in Lake Ontario, just west of Wolfe Island. The small island I was on was about 200 yards in diameter and probably no point on the island was more than 6' to 10' above the lake water level. There was no real protrusions jutting up above the ground level so it was pretty flat and there were no trees or high vegetation. The only thing that stuck up high on the island was a 60 foot lighthouse tower, which is why I was there, to work on it. I was working by myself and the helicopter that had dropped me off had flown into a local airport for fuel and had expected to return to pick me up once I was done my work. I had completed my work and was standing at the bottom of the lighthouse, when I noticed a storm front coming my way....real fast. I could see lightning flashing on the edge of the storm from out over the lake (Lake Ontario) and I was starting to get concerned as that lighthouse, which was a 60' high steel tower, was now looking like a true to life lightning rod. There was not another item protruding from the lake for at least 3 to 4 miles in any direction all around me. It was pretty safe to say that the lighthouse was going to get hit if the storm front passed over me. I was watching lightning bolts and counting so I could gauge the distance from me, and it was getting closer. It got to about 1-1/2 to 2 miles from me then turned south....thank goodness! I had emptied one of my plastic cargo boxes and stood inside it hoping the plastic casing might insulate any jolts in the event of a hit, but I think the multi thousands of volts from a bolt of lightning wouldn't have given that little plastic box a second thought. I think I would have had a new hair doo whenever the chopper returned for me had lightning hit the lighthouse, as I had nowhere to run or hide. You better believe that I wiped my brow with a sigh of relief once that storm changed direction! TBow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huntinsonovagun Posted September 10, 2010 Report Share Posted September 10, 2010 Good thing you weren't taking a leak right then. :ninja: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TigerLily Posted September 12, 2010 Report Share Posted September 12, 2010 Glad your okay Shaun, could have been alot worse!:stretcher: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RangerClay Posted September 12, 2010 Report Share Posted September 12, 2010 Shaun, you better go buy a lottery ticket now! Because you are one lucky individual!!! :jaw: Yes indeedy! I did an oral report in college on lightning strikes and how to avoid them. Almost every source I read mentioned mentioned that if your hair starts to stand up get ready, you are about to get nailed. Nothing I read ever mentioned getting nicked by lightning. I once saw lightning follow a powerline down the side of a house and come shooting out an outlet then went out a window. I would say a couple extra Hail May's next Sunday in church if I were you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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