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Kathryn Piotrowski
05-31-2007, 10:01 PM
This may have been previously posted, I'm not for sure but here it is anyway...http://www.break.com/index/lightning-strike-caught-on-tape.html
Eric Carlson
05-31-2007, 11:21 PM
Cool video. Glad I haven't gotten that close to a strike.
Doug Lee
05-31-2007, 11:41 PM
Yeah! Cool video, alright.

Did you read the comments below the viewer? Some turkey tried to claim it was faked. Then he said it was okay to stand under a tree in a thunderstorm! Some called him a dumba$$, but I think he's a sadist. Or he works for the Darwin Awards committee and he's trolling for candidates.

I have seen video of a closer strike than that. Some chasers were rolling down a highway when a bolt hits the hood of their car! :eek: That was scary!
Willie Dines
06-01-2007, 02:53 AM
Yeah! Cool video, alright.

Did you read the comments below the viewer? Some turkey tried to claim it was faked. Then he said it was okay to stand under a tree in a thunderstorm! Some called him a dumba$$, but I think he's a sadist. Or he works for the Darwin Awards committee and he's trolling for candidates.

I have seen video of a closer strike than that. Some chasers were rolling down a highway when a bolt hits the hood of their car! :eek: That was scary!

Thank you Karen for posting the video link :), that is one very sweet video clip :)

I remember that clip, as I had watched a clip on google video, that shows just that very thing :)

I don't know about you guys, but I would love the idea of getting close, but obviously not too close to a lightning strike :), the closest strike that I've had, to me, in distance away would be about a 1/4 mile, maybe a little less, than that, and the best thing was, it was a positive strike, from the balcony, all the way to the basement, and the thing I loved best about that strike, was that I could actually feel the static in the air, as well as the explosive sound of the after shocks (Thunder) :D

Willie

P.S. Check out this character, who is very lucky that he didn't get zapped worse, than what he did... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djZo00FeYcQ