Everyone has heard the saying but untill it actually happens to you,it doesnt bother many.here is a couple of pictures after a recent strike at the fishery on Sunday evening and the damage to the tree and resulting fire it caused.






Imagine being under that!!!!!!!!

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I presume the person that took the pictures had aslo just been hit?

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either that or they were drunk

still, impressive damage to the tree, wouldn't have wanted to be standing anywhere near that when it hit!

I do hope that suits one better

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It's never a good idea to shelter under a tree during a thunderstorm. My old boss, in South Africa, died following a lightning strike whilst sheltering under a tree.

News - South Africa: Widow can sue after lightning kills husband

The safest place to be is in your car.

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Not often do we get a really 'off the charts' crash and bang (want one of those go to Idaho through Winnipeg; 4th of July when they get going).

But we have have a 'fishing hole' here on the middle Rogue called 'Explosion.' We were fishing with 14-15 foot 2-handers when I took a real look at the cloud formation quickly approaching us from the west. Having lived for many years in Central Canada I had a damned good idea what was/maybe coming.

Fishing buddy and I were about 2 miles down stream from the boat launch in his (thankfully damned fast) 16' 'jet slead' and 'beat feet' back to the boat ramp. Got back, tied off boat and all hell broke loose around/over us (but we were back in his truck).

After the storm past we jumped back in his boat and off we went. Anyway, one of the bolts hit a multi-hundred year old Oak tree and literally blasted the thing into cord wood. Hence the name the 'Explosion Hole.' Named after the tree. Hell of it is, the damned thing survived and is still 'live and well.' Apparently these things will take a hell of a hit and walk away.

A few other 'experiences,' the most interesting (reasonably current) was when Joan and I had our Vineyards here in So. Oregon. Another of these things passed over (plants were only about a year old at that time) and it was another 4th of July show. Only 'problem' is that I had thousands of metal poles on which were hanging multi-thousands of feet of #10 galvanized catch/cordon arm wire.

Talk about a lightning rod!! Actually darned little damage to the plants, but one bolt hit a few feet from my electronic irrigation control box. Fried the damned thing; warranties (even if the 'why it failed' was a tad less than truthful) work.


fae

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Last year, comp angler Brad Gifford of team Loop was walking around Elinor with his team mate and the fishery owner, Ed Foster.

They headed for the copse at the dam end when the thunder and lightening started, a bolt bounced off a tree, entered Brad on the side of his neck/shoulder and exited through his ankle.

Suffering severe burns and on the brink of death, Brad was tended by a surgeon who was there fishing that day, until the air ambulance arrived.

Brad spent some time in intensive care, had skin grafts and eventually recovered.

He went on to win the English National later that season and on to represent his country.

You couldn't make it up.

The Pirate.

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Yeah 1 mile from shore in a boat , in a storm , waving 11 feet of lightning conductor about or sheltering under some trees , tough call that one , but I take the trees option , ( well bushes if I can ) no other option really where I fish , maybe lay flat in the bottom of the boat ?? I don't know

I always see people that just carry on fishing when a storm comes over the Lough !

Was nearly hit by lightning when I was a kid , out fishing , packed up and was running for the old mans car when a bolt hit a tree right behind us !! The noise was incredible !! Had to look at that tree by the fishery gates every time I went fishing after that

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One of my old neighbours was sitting on the couch stroking her cat when lightning hit her house. Blasted the arm off the couch she was sitting on, missing her by millimeters. Sent the cat daft and it had to get put down

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i gto ith yb ligtnihng ocne, hankt dog ti di'tnd do yan madage

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