Natural streamer :)

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Original poster: "BunnyKiller by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <bigfoo39-at-telocity-dot-com>

Hi All...

Just saw one of the most really cool things about 15 min ago..   ( 
10:17am 07-14-02)

I was going to go pick the wife up from work and while I was sitting at 
the stop lite, I looked over to my left and saw a streamer growing off 
the top of a metal lamp post frame. It started about 1' in length and 
increased to about 9' in about 2 seconds. and you guessed it .... 
 lightning struck ...   blew the cap off of the pole and all the lights 
down the street went out. Darn near hurt myself trying to jump away from 
the window while in the car...   ( kinda funny now that you think of it )

Always heard about the pre strike streamers forming before a strong 
strike but thought Id never see one...  

kinda makes me wonder if mini streamers form on the grounded object our 
coils go for....

Scot D