RE: Lightning Video

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Original poster: gary350@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 

I once came very close to getting struck by lightning this was about 
1984.  I was working in the garden when a thrunder strorm rolled 
in.  Wind started picking up and lightning and thunder in the not so 
far distance.  I headed to the house with a garden tool over my 
shoulder.   About 5 ft from the house I suddenly felt the tingle of 
static build up on me sorta like standing very close to my TC.  I 
dropped the garden tool and jumped under the eves of the house roof 
an a 1/2 second later there was a Lightning flash and a BOOM.   There 
was no delay between the lightning flash and BOOM.   I have no idea 
where the lightning struck but I think it was the aluminum gutter on the house.

A few years later I was standing at the back door watching a very 
amazing thunder storm.  Lightning was tremendious and stricks were 
about ever 8 seconds.   Lightning struck a large maple tree in my 
yard and sparks shot up out of the surface roots all around the tree 
about a 50 ft radius.  Sparks were interesting sorta like 100's of 5 
ft TC sparks coming up out of the ground from the roots.  Roots 
commonly stick up on the ground surface from maple trees.   After the 
storm was gone I noticed the tree was split down the middle all the 
way to the ground and the root knots on the surface of the ground had 
black burned spots on them.  One root had a pile of corn stocks from 
the garden piled on it and the corn stocks were on fire down under 
where it was still dry.  The next summer the tree died and I had to 
cut it down.

Gary Weaver