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Strange lightning experience
sleek:
--- Quote from: Eric Krewson on September 05, 2018, 02:07:00 pm ---I saw lightning hit in the front yard at night when I was a kid. It formed into a ball about the size of basketball and rolled downhill into the woods.
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Ball lightning is rare and to witness it, that close, is insane! I have read it rolls down hills and when it impacts an object, it explodes.
Mesophilic:
--- Quote from: sleek on September 05, 2018, 05:21:37 pm ---
--- Quote from: Eric Krewson on September 05, 2018, 02:07:00 pm ---I saw lightning hit in the front yard at night when I was a kid. It formed into a ball about the size of basketball and rolled downhill into the woods.
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Ball lightning is rare and to witness it, that close, is insane! I have read it rolls down hills and when it impacts an object, it explodes.
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That sounds like something amazing to witness.
As a kid in AZ we'd sit up on a mesa and watch the most spectacular lightning displays during the monsoons. Often it would be a 360 degree show. Maybe not too smart being the highest object around for a ways.
Did know a guys who's car was EMP'd from being too close to a strike. He was in the car and said the strike hit the ground just a couple of feet next to the passenger side. Then the car went dead. Had to replace the computer and several other sensitive parts to get the car running again.
Chippintuff:
When I was in high school in the early sixties, My brother, my grandfather and I were standing at an outdoor anvil that had been used in a blacksmith shop. I was trying to make a small part for our tractor. I heard a sizzling sound and looked around to see an old horse drawn planter with it's marker arms sticking up. It was lit up with electricity and little balls of fire all over it. It was about 40-50 feet from us. Just after seeing the planter lit up like Christmas, we heard a big boom in the cloud directly over our heads. We made a fast dash to the house. No harm was done, but I often thought about the fact that we were probably hovered around a better grounded object than the old planter was. Sometimes that "guardian angel" is there. While living there I also had another close call with lightning and felt it strong in my knees, but was unharmed.
WA
sleek:
I was driving in my diesel a month back and am convinced the truck was hit. Bright blinding flash all around me and a very idd sounding quick boom. Almost sounded like an echo. No bolt seen, just electric blue all around. My truck was unharmed.
Marc St Louis:
When I was much younger and perhaps a bit more foolish I would go outside during thunderstorms. Static charges hit me a couple times from distant bolts one of which made me jump a couple feet off the ground, I decided to stop doing that after that happened.
Several years ago our house got hit from a bolt that struck very near to us, several electronic devices blew from that hit. My ex swore she saw lightning come through the window and strike me but I didn't feel a thing.
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