Whether you were personally struck, your horse was struck out in the field, your neighbor or friend got hit, electrical outage?..
In a tent 10m from a tree that got struck directly - some bark blew off it. I was bending over at the waist to pick something off the floor and involuntarily jumped immediately. My memory is that I jumped before I could have had time to react, so I think the electrical field made my muscles spasm which made me jump. Not sure if that’s possible or not though.
@over_clox once the lightning stroke the phone cable that connects my house… The cable drop the pole and was on the ground when why got out… The only casuality was my PC modem, the old phone that was attach to it I think it still working if I conmect it
A trailer in the trailer park across the street from my house got struck by lightning and burned down a while back.
In school, my PE in the senior years was rowing. You basically gathered a crew with one experienced steering person, put the boat on the river, did the predefined round, put the boat away, and you could go home. Be there early, get you boat out quicker, row a bit faster, and you were done early.
One day, the teacher stopped boats going out shortly after we left because of the weather. We were at the farthest point when we noticed the thunderstorm. I can tell you, in a thunderstorm you don’t want to be the one high point in the middle of the river! So we ran the boat home, pulled it out of the water and carried it up the ramp to the boat house. When we were in the middle of the ramp, lighting struck the flag pole about 5-10m from the ramp. Light and sound effects simultaneously, and it was LOUD!
I don’t remember the moments after the impact, but we were told that no group ever had carried their boat up the ramp and into the building that fast.
I wasn’t close, but lightning struck my house when I was a kid. When we got home, most of our appliances and electronics were broken. My Xbox (the original one) was sitting on the garage floor above some rebar in the concrete. The lightning went through the Xbox into the rebar and blew a chunk of concrete and the Xbox across the garage. RIP Xbox. RIP TV.
Insurance paid for most of it after they came out and verified we were indeed struck by lightning.
In my teens in the mountains of Colorado there were tons of lightning strikes. One summer, a lightning strike in our driveway took out our garage door openers and a TV.
This past summer, I did a 40+ mi bike ride that covered some very open areas of the CO plains. At my turn-around spot I could tell a storm was moving in quick and thought, “ah well, some sprinkles will feel alright.” Then I rode for about 9 miles in a downpour with lightning crashing around me while on a dirt road with just about nothing else around me (me swearing aloud the whole time). Finally got to some relative safety of some tight rock outcrops with overhangs. I was still outside and not totally safe, but it felt good to get out of that scary situation as much as I could for a bit while the storm passed.
Lightning touched down in my neighbor’s yard. My wifi access point and my laptop battery both got cooked, and I may have accidentally tought my kids a new word.
The laptop was plugged in right? As in, not induced currents
Yeah the charger was connected. I’ve since bought a proper UPS with a proper surge protector.
Tree got hit split it in half and destroyed a house. Some bullets can’t penetrate trees fully and lightning cuts it in half. Goes to show you nature is more terrifying than you think.
I lived across the street from a power distribution station. One night while I was outside, there was a lightning strike there, and it lit up the sky like daylight for 2-3 full seconds, and the power for the whole town went out.
I was in late middle school, like 11 or 12 years old, walking down the street with my friend Chris, and there was a bolt of lighting right near us. I don’t know how close it was, I saw white and heard the loudest sound I’ve ever heard in my life. It felt like it struck 10 feet up the road. I think that’s the fastest I’ve ever run.
40 feet away, it struck a manhole cover in the center of a cul-de-sac. Saw it from inside my house, it felt like an earthquake, sounded deafening, and may have peed a little.
What does it look like when lightning pees?
It hit close enough to shock my through my all aluminum laptop. Felt like getting kicked in the chest. Somehow both me and the laptop were ok.
It hit a car in a parking lot I was standing in. Roughly 50-100ft away. Really really bright! Really really loud!
Does having your gf accidentally fart in your mouth count as a lightning strike?
One night I was lying in bed around midnight, trying to get to sleep when a bolt struck a hundred feet or so down the street from me. It was spring so I had the windows open and it was fucking loud. Took me a while to calm down and start to doze off again, so of course that’s when the fire engines arrived to investigate the scene with their sirens going full blast.
