Our internet was out early this week because there was no power in the room. Andy reset the circuit breaker and figured it had tripped because of a nearby lightning strike. He was right. Notice the skinny, branchless tree across from the shed in this picture:
Here it is zoomed in:
And here are pictures of a chunk blown off and the damage done to the trunk.
No end of excitement up there.
August 3, 2017
Yes, you are living in exciting times!
This is now viral – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlgeUfUpuZs
Great link! 😀
holy moly!
just a little too close for comfort!
lightning kills more people than any other storm each year.
or so ‘they’ say anyway… the people who keep track of such things.
but I think most of them occur on golf courses with the metal shaft of a golf club being held by upright golfers out in the open!
Yes, I don’t like them being that close. We have lightning protection for the house but not the shed yet. Andy wants to keep a few dead trees standing around there as protection.
Have you been affected by the recent earthquakes?
Your mention of golf reminds me of Trump going for a three-week vacation to his favorite golf course. If only he would leave his tweeting device behind.
In all our lives we have had a nearby lightening strike only once. Of course, it fried the motherboard in Dave’s computer. In spite of our surge protector. Lightening is a LOT of electricity. I’m glad no one was near your tree when it got hit.
I’m glad no one was near too! Surge protectors are better than nothing, but it’s hard to make them completely lightning proof.
flashes of lightening often seen in our skies, usually with thunder and the of course that onerous rain…but I agree “too close for comfort for the shed, and Andy…”
Fingers crossed there won’t be another one soon.