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that is wild!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
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If you replay it you see the lighting bolt ricochet off that rock. 

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This came around a few years ago. 
Pretty sure it was Det-Cord and not lighting bunching along the "Ground"  :doofus:   :rotflmao:

Probably making the launch deeper.  ;)



« Last Edit: August 08/06/20, 07:41:48 PM by Leech~~ »
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I wondered if that is what the river thing was too Leech.  Seemed like a few explosions instead of one big one.  One heck of a boom though. 

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This video shows exactly how it was used. Watch the slow-mo in the gravel pit and water.  :happy1:

https://youtu.be/W086BtJqCL8
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Those are some cool videos. The lightning strike is crazy cool!
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That lightning strike one did look like that Det cord didn't it?  It really riled up that crick. 

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medium raw tbone and rib eye's!!!!   
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Those are some cool videos. The lightning strike is crazy cool!

I think that was the point I was making. I don't think the first video is a lighting strike at all.  Lighting goes to +/- Ground=the ground.  It doesn't skip sideways across the Ground. 
I still think they were blowing the landing channel deeper and someone had fun calling it lighting when they posted it.  It looks like a lot of logs started coming up in the channel and they were trying to clear the hazard out.  :happy1:
« Last Edit: August 08/07/20, 02:10:04 PM by Leech~~ »
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A little off topic—last September I was on business in Eastern Wisconsin and brought Mrs. fishwidow along for a couple days in Door County. When we got home, I saw something laying in the middle of the dining room floor. It was a piece of the telephone. We turned on the TV and had no satellite signal. Went outside to investigate and found the buried cable from the dish to the house had been blown out of the ground and was broken in half a dozen places. Also found the buried cable for the invisible fence was blown out of the ground nearby. Found a vertical stripe of no bark on a tall spruce tree and some of its roots sticking out of the ground. A lightning strike to that tree fried the telephone, satellite equipment, and the dog fence. The tree is still alive, but not looking real healthy. With the amount of damage, I’m kind of glad we weren’t home when it happened, although I wonder what the crack of thunder must have sounded like.

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A little off topic—last September I was on business in Eastern Wisconsin and brought Mrs. fishwidow along for a couple days in Door County. When we got home, I saw something laying in the middle of the dining room floor. It was a piece of the telephone. We turned on the TV and had no satellite signal. Went outside to investigate and found the buried cable from the dish to the house had been blown out of the ground and was broken in half a dozen places. Also found the buried cable for the invisible fence was blown out of the ground nearby. Found a vertical stripe of no bark on a tall spruce tree and some of its roots sticking out of the ground. A lightning strike to that tree fried the telephone, satellite equipment, and the dog fence. The tree is still alive, but not looking real healthy. With the amount of damage, I’m kind of glad we weren’t home when it happened, although I wonder what the crack of thunder must have sounded like.

had that happen when we were home!!!  maple tree took a high hit, wires for the UHF antenna were blown out of the ground, satellite, reciever and TV all fried...  phones fried..  crazy and the boom was right on top of the lightning....   
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Those are some cool videos. The lightning strike is crazy cool!

I think that was the point I was making. I don't think the first video is a lighting strike at all.  Lighting goes to +/- Ground=the ground.  It doesn't skip sideways across the Ground. 
I still think they were blowing the landing channel deeper and someone had fun calling it lighting when they posted it.  It looks like a lot of logs started coming up in the channel and they were trying to clear the hazard out.  :happy1:


Ya it looked like all kinds of crap appeared out of the bottom of the crick.  Not a bad way to do it. 

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LPS, ,cool video(first one you posted) I remember it from a few yews ago,take a looksey at the very end,is that a big ass carp blowin outof the water or debris?

Last night sure was a light show,my golden woke me up at 2am all fired up,barking at the hail hitting the house.....

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I turn 65 this week. Never in my life have I witnessed a lightning show like last night. It lasted for hours and was a bolt every few seconds. Some were the standard vertical type but many were side to side horizontal.

Very impressive but also very powerful and dangerous.
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I turn 65 this week. Never in my life have I witnessed a lightning show like last night. It lasted for hours and was a bolt every few seconds. Some were the standard vertical type but many were side to side horizontal.

Very impressive but also very powerful and dangerous.

and that is what makes it interesting till it scares the crap out of ya!!!! 
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I turn 65 this week. Never in my life have I witnessed a lightning show like last night. It lasted for hours and was a bolt every few seconds. Some were the standard vertical type but many were side to side horizontal.

Very impressive but also very powerful and dangerous.


Happy Birthday DB.

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oh yea Happy Birthday buddy!!!   :party3: :Clap:
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I turn 65 this week. Never in my life have I witnessed a lightning show like last night. It lasted for hours and was a bolt every few seconds. Some were the standard vertical type but many were side to side horizontal.

Very impressive but also very powerful and dangerous.
happy birthday dutchy!!!!!!! :happy1: :dancinred: :happybday: hope age 65 gets a pay raise so you can buy me that mickey when pro football season starts!!!!! :evil: :evil: :rotflmao: :rotflmao:

i apparently slept right through the lightening show!!!!! :scratch: :scratch:
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Happy B-Day Dutchboy!!!  :happybday:
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Happy Birthday DB!  :happy1:

Since this is a lightning thread I probably should've posted this here. From yesterday's derecho:

  https://t.co/XGGubYYMf2 
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Thanks guys, just another day I guess.

Glenn the Big $$ conference scrapped the 2020 edition of "The smoke & mirror tour" so you better hope the NFL plays to get your football fix.
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Thanks guys, just another day I guess.

Glenn the Big $$ conference scrapped the 2020 edition of "The smoke & mirror tour" so you better hope the NFL plays to get your football fix.
Yea seen that. :confused: sucks. :pouty:
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