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Lightning toasted my house in 2007, just arrived home 30 mins after it happened, glad I wasn't in the house given the magnitude of the destruction...TV exploded
by shaydoc 13y ago
Lightning toasted my house in 2007, just arrived home 30 mins after it happened, glad I wasn't in the house given the magnitude of the destruction...TV exploded scrapnel everywhere, ceilings down upstairs and down....but worst of all, dealing with our insurance company for damages...
Can't believe this guy is not the only family member to have been hit, insane!
- robflynn 13y agoOne of my co-workers was working with some radio equipment years ago. A storm started moving in and he decided to go turn off the equipment and unplug things. Just as he got over to the equipment, lightning struck. He woke up on his floor, could smell something burning, and found electrical components all over the place -- some embedded in the wall. What happened afterward was kind of amusing. He went to the ER and signed in. The front desk nurse said something about their being a long wait (this was before they wrote down the reason.) Him describing the doctor running into the room moments later saying "You got struck by what!?" was pretty funny. They ran tests and thankfully everything was fine. He didn't take a direct hit, I guess. No crazy scars or anything... hearing, heart, et. al were fine. Anyway, my main point is, lightning is some crazy stuff.
- derleth 13y ago> scrapnel The usual word is 'shrapnel', but this actually makes more sense in a portmanteau word sort of way: It's scraps that were hurled around as shrapnel. Scrapnel. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portmanteau http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portmanteau
- legitsource 13y agoA few years back, I was standing in a puddle in a shed plugging in a golf cart when lightning hit a few feet away from me. It was like a bomb going off, vaporizing sheets of drywall, turning the wooden beams into splinters, and blowing a chunk out of the concrete. In the room upstairs, it melted a mirror and fried all the electrical devices. A monitor close by got a really neat wavy pattern like it was exposed to a magnet. All in all, that was a terrible afternoon at work.
- defen 13y agoSetting aside the lightning incident, would it be considered imprudent to plug in an electrical device while standing in water?
- Kliment 13y agoIf your socket has a ground fault interrupter, no. In every other case, yes.
- legitsource 13y agoI was working at a golf course plugging a charging cord into a golf cart. There was at least a small puddle in that building 24/7.