Lighting sucks!!
Reply #11 –
I've been hit twice by lightning. It ain't no fun.
Lightning rods on houses will help, but won't eliminate the possibility of a strike.
The second time I got hit, was in 1997. I was playing guitar in the basp00get, about 2 hours after a bad T-storm had went through. It was still dark and cloudy, but no prior lightning since the storm. Anyhow, a bolt came down, hit the century old Oak tree, and jumped to the house via the TV antenna. It hosed the tube, microwave, toaster, and vcr, and of course traveled through the house wiring and bit me. I was looking at a chord chart, had my left hand hand muting the strings while I was trying to "grab" the chord...I saw a bright purple flash, felt something that remarkable resembled being hit in the hand by a f*ckin' sledgehammer, then the next thing I know, I was laying on the floor and my legs hurt like hell. The guitar still worked, but the aforementioned electronics were toast, and there was a big-assed hole in the siding from a piece of tree bark that was blown off by the bolt.
Thankfully, the antenna was taken down by me in 203, and there have been no more strikes on the oaks here, despite being on a hill. Before that, they'd get about 4 or 5 hits a year. Brutal shiznit, every time it sounded like a bomb had went off.
The other time I washiznit, I was about 13, 14, and was home alone. This was at my dad's, he was on a run into town, and I was sitting in the chair in the front room, listening to the radio as the storm brewing up was supposed to be pretty bad.
The wind picked up, as did the lightning, and then the rain...I got up to shut the windows on the west and south sides, and as I was a few feet from the chair, I saw a flash of light, and then next thing I knew, my dad was shaking me awake...I'd been knocked clean out. There was water all over the kitchen floor from the rain, and he was pissed at me. I explained that I had been on my way to close the windows when something hit me...sure enough, there was a big lump on the back of my head....and the radio wouldn't work...neither did the TV. The antenna rotor was also fried. We went outside and looked at the roof...the TV antenna was knocked to shiznit....my guess is the strike came in through the TV coax and somehow arced to me or something, knocked me unconscious.
Understandably, I'm a little excited about lightning...I don't want to make it 3 times. That shiznit hurts, guys.
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