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Driving when lightning's around
Bush Tucker Man:
I've just remembered.
We've actually got a lightening conductor on our house :shock: , and we're not on particularly high ground.
(a tall Victorian house though)
luffy:
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--- Quote from: "jnoshea" --- Perhaps the most dangerous thing to do is to get out and remove the antenna because for the time you're holding it you are really asking for trouble :D
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Good point - I didn't think of that :shock: . I was stopped under some trees at the time so wasn't in a clear line of sight for the lightning but thinking about it, that probably wasn't a very good either :oops:
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Absolute classic :lol: When are they making the Horizon special about it?
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:lol: I don't think common sense played much of a part in my actions last night :oops:
Reaper:
--- Quote ---I don't think common sense played much of a part in my actions last night
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Not so silly if you have a DeLorean and flux capacitor and needed 1.21 gigawatts :lol: :lol: :lol:
luffy:
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--- Quote ---I don't think common sense played much of a part in my actions last night
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Not so silly if you have a DeLorean and flux capacitor and needed 1.21 gigawatts :lol: :lol: :lol:
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:lol: :lol: :lol:
m0awb:
--- Quote from: "luffy" ---Driving home last night in the heavy rain and thunder and lightning got me thinking as to what would happen if my cb aerial was hit by a lightning strike.
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Absolutely nothing. Safest place on earth in a thunder storm is in a car or caravan... If it's an aluminium one, not glass fibre.
A car is in effect what's technically know as a faraday cage. If elctricity strikes the outside it can't get in. Same as using a mobile phone in a caravan or steel framed building, the signal can't get out unless the cell is pretty close.
http://www.lightningsafety.com/nlsi_pls/vehicle_strike.html
Point 4 on the above page is particularly relevant to your question about you CB.
http://www.answers.com/topic/faraday-cage
Just google for faraday cage and you'll see vehicles mentioned all the time.
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