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2006-05-31 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by john 2006-05-31 19:50|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 When I was a firefighter, I saw some really weird lightning strike paths.

Probably the "best" one (witnessed) was in an older neighborhood with huge (50-100-foot) trees all over the place. A ball of lightning shot down the street, knocking out any homeowners' driveway lamps while leaving taller county streetlights alone and hitting not one tree.

It hung a left, went underground in a lady's paved driveway, hit a pipe, traveled through the pipe into the house to the sump pump, blew out the sump pump and traveled around the pipe along the wall to a sink, where it discharged.

The explosion knocked a whole bunch of decorative glass bottles off the kitchen window upstairs and scared the hell out of the female homeowner, who was home alone, sitting in a tub full of water, taking a bath in a thunderstorm. (Darwin, phone home.)

The worst part of it was, the previous year lightning had also struck the house, coming out through an electrical socket and narrowly missing her teenage daughter.

There's a sign in there someplace. Me, I'd MOVE.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut"> Barbara Skolaut 2006-05-31 21:02|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html] 2006-05-31 21:02|| Front Page Top

#2 or run a big friggin copper ground rod deep in mama earth

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-05-31 21:29|| 2006-05-31 21:29|| Front Page Top

#3 Frank, that's why my old TV antenna is still on the roof, though I've had cable for about 20 years.

That TV antenna cable attaches to a 3-foot copper ground rod pounded almost all the way into the ground. :-D

Posted by Barbara Skolaut"> Barbara Skolaut 2006-05-31 23:27|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html] 2006-05-31 23:27|| Front Page Top

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