Lightning
We were camping this past week in Lancaster County Pa and had a very bad storm roll through on Tuesday and had a lightning strike about 15 ft in front of our motorhome. It blew off the cover from the ...
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My car was struck while I was driving it… it didn’t quit running but the headlights turned off the speedo and gauges all zeroed out, and I managed to pull off the road into a parking lot…
I turned the key off thinking it wouldn’t start again, but when I turned the key back on everything seemed to have reset, everything worked as normal…
The worst part of the ordeal was the britches needed cleaned and the eyes took some time to adjust…
I have spent a lot of my life repairing lightning damaged cables and worked through them… often the wire melted and leaked out of the insulation and what was left if the wire was as brittle and breakable as glass…
One time lightning struck a tree near me and 3 cattle fell over dead… and a strike destroyed all the wiring in a house and lifted the buried wire to the well pump to the grounds surface…
Lighting can do the most unpredictable things, and I think that is the most predictable thing about it…
It’s unpredictability…
I turned the key off thinking it wouldn’t start again, but when I turned the key back on everything seemed to have reset, everything worked as normal…
The worst part of the ordeal was the britches needed cleaned and the eyes took some time to adjust…
I have spent a lot of my life repairing lightning damaged cables and worked through them… often the wire melted and leaked out of the insulation and what was left if the wire was as brittle and breakable as glass…
One time lightning struck a tree near me and 3 cattle fell over dead… and a strike destroyed all the wiring in a house and lifted the buried wire to the well pump to the grounds surface…
Lighting can do the most unpredictable things, and I think that is the most predictable thing about it…
It’s unpredictability…
