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If there's 2 things I hate, it's lightning. I will not check the mail, I will not cut the grass, I will run for shelter at the first hint of lightningz. Taken from my garage. There was so much flashing going on inside that wall of clouds it looked like war of the worlds going on. Remember kids: If you can hear it, fear it. If you can see it, flee it.
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Hacklemerc
05-28-2009, 04:55 PM
The Wife is so afraid of lightning she won't talk on the cellphone when its raining outside. She sits downstairs in the basement and refuses to come out until the storm is over. Thats generally the only time I get some peace and quiet.
Bluerauder
05-28-2009, 05:10 PM
If there's 2 things I hate, it's lightning.
I don't do lightning either. I'm not askeered of it. I just don't tempt fate. No soccer fields, no boats, no golf courses, no trees and no flagpoles during thunderstorms. Had a really close call with lightning when I was 13 ... I don't care to repeat the experience. Still fascinated to watch it from a distance, though. :D
Joe Walsh
05-28-2009, 05:19 PM
Just be glad that you aren't this guy!!!
http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/2008/07/shenandoah-national-park-ranger-roy-sullivan-set-world-record-being-hit-lightning
BTW: Cool picture!
I love sitting on the covered front porch and watching a lightning storm light up the clouds!
Thought you were talking metallica for a sec. :D
knine
05-28-2009, 09:58 PM
If there's 2 things I hate, it's lightning.
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..........and cats?
Aren Jay
05-28-2009, 10:20 PM
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LIGHTNIN1
05-28-2009, 10:58 PM
Me don't like it.Read too many stories about people getting struck on golf courses. Work with a guy who had 30 cattle that died from being under a tree when it was struck.
Dr Caleb
05-28-2009, 11:46 PM
I love lightning. Last year I was out walking the dog at the park (large open field) during a storm, and the ground got hit by lightning. I actually felt it in my feet, they got all tingly.
..........and cats?
It's scary how well you know me....
Badger
05-29-2009, 04:15 AM
It's scary how well you know me....
It's posted on the Internetz so it's all true!
Here's one to add to your list: washing your hands or taking a shower during a thunderstorm. I got shocked from a ground reference spike due to a close hit.
Phone landline don't use that either during storms.
justbob
05-29-2009, 09:49 AM
Sissy pants.
Sissy pants.
Don't make me show you my lightning rod.
Blk Mamba
05-29-2009, 10:06 AM
On our travels through the mid-west the wife and stayed a a motel in Norman Ok., a sever storm warning was issued, so we went down to the portico, and set up our cameras for lightning pics. We were only there 5 min. when the motel manager came out and said he would through us out if we didn't stop, we were scaring the other guests. I told him to call the police. I have pictures of lightning in all colors, pink, green, orange, Etc. So, no I'm not afraid of lightning. I wear a necklace with a lightning bolt.
I wear a necklace with a lightning bolt.
My ol' Chevy keychain has a lightning bolt on it. Got it at Graceland. TCB, baby, long live The King!
Egon Spengler
05-29-2009, 11:00 AM
I love lightning and thunder... especially when I am in bed listening to it... until my pager goes off for the fire department and I have to respond for a lightning strike at a house and then I get to stand outside in the storm! In my town, depending on the severity, we will be running around to lightning strikes quite a bit! Gets a little freaky standing out there.
I was up in the bucket of this during a thunderstorm where that house had gotten struck... fun stuff... that is when you hope it is true that lightning doesn't strike the same place twice!
http://c2.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/16/l_14f7e7f88d4a4c15a887758257a8 672d.jpg
Bluerauder
05-29-2009, 11:14 AM
I was up in the bucket of this during a thunderstorm where that house had gotten struck... fun stuff... that is when you hope it is true that lightning doesn't strike the same place twice!
JMHO ... seems like an unnecessary risk to me to be in the Tower bucket "during" an active thunderstorm unless there is actual life or property at stake. I see no flames at the house, I see no smoke at the house, I see no water on the house, I see no immediate danger to life or property. Just inspecting the damage can wait another 10-15 minutes until the storm moved downrange rather than place firefighter's life at risk. If they make you do this often, I'd be looking at helping them buy some big rubber insulating pads for those outrigger arms. Again, JMHO.
Egon Spengler
05-29-2009, 11:22 AM
JMHO ... seems like an unnecessary risk to me to be in the Tower bucket "during" an active thunderstorm unless there is actual life or property at stake. I see no flames at the house, I see no smoke at the house, I see no water on the house, I see no immediate danger to life or property. Just inspecting the damage can wait another 10-15 minutes until the storm moved downrange rather than place firefighter's life at risk. If they make you do this often, I'd be looking at helping them buy some big rubber insulating pads for those outrigger arms. Again, JMHO.
Bad pic... Fire in a great room in the back of the building that they were chasing into the house... we were sent up to cut a hole in the roof to vent so the firefighters inside were relieved from heat and smoke
knine
05-29-2009, 05:55 PM
It's scary how well you know me....
Not really, your cat sent me this pic below......................... .(appologies to Taemian)
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