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Driving when lightning's around
EvilEd:
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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 idea either :oops:
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So, you stopped under a wet tree to take the arial off....
OMG!!!!!!!
It's not a good idea to stand under trees when there is lightening about, a wet tree makes an "Easiest route to earth" and if you're near it, outside of the car, you are putting yourself at far more risk :)
Wet soft tops are okay too..... you can still get the faradays effect so long as the top is VERY wet....
Range Rover Blues:
Do you know why it's so dangerous to stand near a tree in a lightnening storm? If the tree gets struck the current flow heats up the sap so quickly that it boils and expolodes, you get struck by the shrapnel and it's as bad as when a tree is struck by a canon shell.
Reaper:
--- Quote ---and it's as bad as when a tree is struck by a canon shell.
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That happen a lot up north then? :lol: :lol:
Bush Tucker Man:
--- Quote from: "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.
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Now having looked at it, the TV aeriels are actually higher :roll:
Bush Tucker Man:
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--- Quote ---and it's as bad as when a tree is struck by a canon shell.
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That happen a lot up north then? :lol: :lol:
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Only when southerners venture up this way :roll: :wink:
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