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re: Lightning strikes explodes a telephone pole.
Posted on 7/26/16 at 8:01 am to Cruiserhog
Posted on 7/26/16 at 8:01 am to Cruiserhog
Holy crap!
CSB: I worked at a golf course back in HS. The pro was talking to prospective members in the pro shop on a beautiful sunny day. As he's pointing out this giant, majectic pine along the right side of the 1st fairway, a bolt of lightning came out of nowhere and blew it up (just like in the video). Scared the ever-living crap out of me. Parts of that tree were found up to 100 yards away.
CSB: I worked at a golf course back in HS. The pro was talking to prospective members in the pro shop on a beautiful sunny day. As he's pointing out this giant, majectic pine along the right side of the 1st fairway, a bolt of lightning came out of nowhere and blew it up (just like in the video). Scared the ever-living crap out of me. Parts of that tree were found up to 100 yards away.
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Posted on 7/26/16 at 8:14 am to Cruiserhog
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Fortunately for me the lightning struck a tree about 100 yards away instead of that pylon because I was only about 10 ft. away from the leader. I still took a serious jolt, will never forget it.
I been trying to get some information on this. a couple weeks ago i was in a boat in a small bayou and had lightning hit in the vicinity. I have no idea how close it was, but i felt the electric charge in my brain, then seen the flash of light (no bolt) and then heard the thunder all within a sec. I had a headache for the next 36 hours or so. I know it had to be close but unsure if being in the water allowed it to be further away, but the feeling was powerful. Like hitting an electric fence.
Posted on 7/26/16 at 8:19 am to mtntiger
Audubon Park, the old golf clubhouse location. Face it from the running path. Look at the oak to the right that was in the middle of the circular parking lot. You will see a huge part (>12" in diameter near the base) cut off. A lightning bolt sheared it off in the blink of an eye. I was in my car about 50 feet away.
Posted on 7/26/16 at 9:44 am to olgoi khorkhoi
Posted on 7/26/16 at 10:28 am to Cruiserhog
Some lightning took out part of a pine tree back at our old house that I grew up in. A big summer thunderstorm rolled through, we lost power, and all of a sudden the loudest thing I've ever heard happened. We looked out of the front windows and there is a 2 foot wide strip taken out of the side of an old pine. Maybe 15-20 feet long. Limbs and debris was everywhere. It struck the tree about 40 feet off the ground.
Posted on 7/26/16 at 10:36 am to Jim Rockford
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Lightning instantly superheats the creosote, blowing the light pole apart. The same thing can happen with pine trees.
It happened to a huge live oak tree on a golf course in Tallahassee. It was the size of one of the oaks in the quad at LSU. Reduced that tree to matchsticks that covered the fairway from tee to green. There was nothing left but a stump in the ground.
Posted on 7/26/16 at 10:38 am to Cruiserhog
I saw a pine tree do that about 50 yards away once. Scary.
Posted on 7/26/16 at 10:39 am to Cruiserhog
I'm 45 and have never really had a real fear of lightning, until now.... 
Posted on 7/26/16 at 10:42 am to Volvagia
Closest I've been was when I lived in Beau Pre townhomes. I used go on Adderall binges and pull all-nighters studying. I went take a smoke break at like 3 a.m. and could tell the weather was getting bad. All of a sudden, about 3 seconds before the strike, everything felt weird. I've been in lightening storms while fishing where you can feel the static electricity. This was like that on steroids. Then everything lit up (must have been feeder bands). Shortly afterwards lightening hit the pond about 75 yards from me. I peed myself a little and ran inside like a little girl.
Posted on 7/26/16 at 11:00 pm to Old Sarge
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I'm 45 and have never really had a real fear of lightning, until now...
I take it very seriously...for some reason my shop is like a magnet for lightning strikes
the building proper has been struck 4 times that i know of, I had some friends over working on a car of their and I was in the office and it lit up like someone struck a welding arc and then the walls shook...I was convinced they were dead in the back but it struck a fence pole that supports my gate. Ive lost 3 door alarm sensors in another strike, they were melted internally, In another strike, the junction trunk out on the street for the telephone company was struck once, melted a panel in side. I had my hand on my metal knob of the entrance to my shop and got a jolt from a strike about 500 ft away.
I dont screw around when it gets electrical outside, its pretty impressive what it can do.
Posted on 7/26/16 at 11:02 pm to Cruiserhog
Crapped your pants?! I think I've got an erection, that was badass!
Posted on 7/26/16 at 11:03 pm to xxKylexx
From the comments:
That was the pole's a-hole and it just ate Taco Bell.
That was the pole's a-hole and it just ate Taco Bell.
Posted on 7/26/16 at 11:22 pm to bayouvette
Posted on 7/26/16 at 11:30 pm to Cruiserhog
when nature downvotes a post
Posted on 7/27/16 at 1:40 am to KG6
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Then everything lit up (must have been feeder bands).
Nah.
May have been cloud to cloud that moved the charge that hit near you, but everything you saw in that gif took place in less 1/1000th of a second
Posted on 7/27/16 at 3:31 am to jimbeam
About 40 yards for me, standing under our carport when I was a teenager. Smoking chunk of pine about the size of a shoe dented the wall 6 feet from where I was standing.
Posted on 7/27/16 at 4:54 am to Signal Soldier
More like a "fringe" event that is explained away by lightning damage
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