Best way to explain it is they tend to take the "easiest" path to ground.
On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 6:54 AM, Michael <
bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
> I was speaking with a professor from UF in gainesville and he told me that
> researchers at UF had found that, contrary to popular belief, lightening
> strikes rarely take the shortest path to ground. He said they found that
> there are many factors including atmospheric pressure.
>
> On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 3:30 AM, Steve Litt <slitt@troubleshooters.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 01 Jun 2016 20:34:55 -0700
>> Brian Cluff <Brian@Snaptek.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> > I wish I still had this CD ROM drive that I used to show off when
>> > lightning came up in conversation. Most of the traces were
>> > completely melted off its circuit board... and the computer that it
>> > was plugged into was also plugged into a really nice surge suppressor.
>>
>> Supposedly Central Florida, where I live, is the lightning capital of
>> the world. One day I sat on the front porch, enjoying a rainstorm, even
>> after my wife told me to come inside before I get struck by lightning.
>>
>> Then there was one of those boom-flashes where the book and the flash
>> were simultaneous, my wife came to the front door, and told me our back
>> yard had been struck by lightning. Here's what I found:
>>
>> There was a 15 foot and rising mushroom cloud of smoke rising from an
>> 18 inch hole in the ground. A few feet from the hole was the metal dog
>> leash cable whose top pulley rode on a 50 foot horizontal metal cable
>> stretched between two trees. Several inches of the leash that had been
>> touching the ground were vaporized.
>>
>> Following the horizontal cable, I saw that the tree on the right had
>> burn marks from where the cable was attached to midway up the tree, but
>> a tree about 6 feet away had burn marks from that height to its top.
>>
>> The lightning had hit one tree, jumped to the tree with the horizontal
>> wire, across the horizontal wire to the vertical leash, down the leash
>> to blow a hole in the ground and vaporize several inches of the leash.
>> Luckily, our dog hadn't been on it at the time.
>>
>> I found out later that my neighbor had been standing about 10 feet from
>> the trees that got hit, on his own property. The electrical field had
>> knocked him to the ground.
>>
>> The itercom system that came with our house failed. Both trees that got
>> hit died a few weeks later.
>>
>> SteveT
>>
>> Steve Litt
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