Lightening experiences anyone got any stories?

[7029 dave]

I went up to troodos mountains when I was married to the Greek goddess.

 

[Squid]

I went up to troodos mountains when I was married to the Greek goddess.

Is that the same as going up the OXO Tower?

 

[Rpa07]

Is that the same as going up the OXO Tower?

I don't know what that means @SWD but I like it! T'is probably another euphemism that has caught me out - darn my sheltered upbringing!

 

[Squid]

Think about it, taking the wife up the OXO Tower is and old joke

 

[Wilko]

Moving right along ...

In a far away place, I strolled out into the car park with my then 10yo Darling Daughter when the mid summer, mid afternoon storm hit. Some drops of rain as big as marbles then just as we approached the car ... bbbanggg ... the gal steel lamp post next to it got hit. Flash camera light level and full on stink of burnt galvanising etc. Bundled DD into car sharpish, shut door and got away unscathed. I did say a prayer of thanks to the folks that had bothered to securely earth that pole.

 

[freddo]

A job a number of years ago involved rewiring the telephone cables in a house where the overhead phone lines were struck by lightning. The wiring was all surface and all that remained after the strike was the phone sockets and cable clip nails. The cable had gone leaving just a blast mark all along the walls and skirtings.

A relative also had her house struck by lightning, the cables were damaged as above and the blast also broke a number of the sockets, the house had to be fully rewired.

I was near a tree a few years back that was struck, I would describe the experience as both blinding and deafening. The loudest noise I have ever heard, terrifying but cool at the same time. Parts of the tree trunk had been blown out by the lightning.

 

[Bobster]

I've been out working on a tank farm during a storm, felt all the hairs on my neck an arms stand on end. Quickly hurried myself inside one of the substations close by. Sure enough 2 big lightning strikes hit the lightning rods on the tanks.