Dangerous lightening

[herfrds]

This has been our year for lighting strikes.
Had the storm in June that we had such close strikes it was just a flash pop BOOM all at once.
This July while doing my spotter report I yelled in the meterologists ear when we got a close strike.
Just the other day we had a small cloud pass over we got the only strike out of the cloud. No notice of it just a huge boom when it hit.

DH told me about a hit they had years ago. It was so strong it bored a hole into the ground and hit the buried phone line, blew the phone boxes off both houses and fried the water heaters in both houses.

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

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Farmerboy, we escaped the last one. Thank goodness for insurance!
Here is what happened earlier in the year and we had to have to whole well replaced. A week or so later we found another two trees that got zapped behind the garden.

It blasted this railroad tie in half and sent it 121 feet down the side of the house too. Now whenever a storm comes I go hide out in the basement.

 

[ChooksinChoppers]

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Farmerboy, we escaped the last one. Thank goodness for insurance!
Here is what happened earlier in the year and we had to have to whole well replaced. A week or so later we found another two trees that got zapped behind the garden.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/27698_100_4984.jpg

It blasted this railroad tie in half and sent it 121 feet down the side of the house too. Now whenever a storm comes I go hide out in the basement.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/27698_100_5017.jpg

wow! it blew that tree to smithereens!

 

[Nicole01]

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Farmerboy, we escaped the last one. Thank goodness for insurance!
Here is what happened earlier in the year and we had to have to whole well replaced. A week or so later we found another two trees that got zapped behind the garden.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/27698_100_4984.jpg

It blasted this railroad tie in half and sent it 121 feet down the side of the house too. Now whenever a storm comes I go hide out in the basement.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/27698_100_5017.jpg

Wow! That was one strong lightening bolt!!! I'm grateful that storm is over. There was another storm today that was very windy. It took down the kids wooden playset(second time this year) and uprooted a few of our trees in the woods. Hurricane winds!

I'm REALLY looking forward for fall! I'm uploading a pic of our playset.

 

[ChooksinChoppers]

Another time in KY I was working at a horse barn grooming horses and my then 3 rd old son would entertain himself riding his trike up and down the aisles. It started storming and I was trying to calm down nervous yearlings while I groomed them in their stall...after a very loud, close lightning strike I hear DS crying and rush out to see whats up.....he was laying beside his trike which was beside the downspout (he was fasinated by water) which I surmised had gotten hit by lightning and it threw him off his bike. Lucky he wasnt killed or hurt at all...just scared the

out of him.
We always blame that incident on his later behaviour and "not so smart" problems

 

[Nicole01]

Good bye playset. Our kids have out grown it anyways. I'm sure we would be able to reuse the wood. In the 9 years we lived here, this is the first year it's ever been blown down!

 

[ChooksinChoppers]

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Oooh! I see Chicken coop materials!

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

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Tha scary part was actually seeing the tree explode!

More storms headed this way, Severe thunderstorm watch till 2am. [that includes Farmerboy's area too]

 

[Farmerboy16]

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Tha scary part was actually seeing the tree explode!

More storms headed this way, Severe thunderstorm watch till 2am. [that includes Farmerboy's area too]

I was just caught in the downpour 20 minutes ago, I was moving some stuff with the tractor, and a lightening struck too close for comfort. I ran inside as fast as I could.

I am all wet while typing this.

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

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Oooh! I see Chicken coop materials!

X 2!!