Big bang at work.
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I know this is not meat related but wanted to share a cool photo with everyone interested. We had a small storm blow through the other night and the thunder from this bolt of lightning shook our cement plant buildings worse than anything I’ve felt in my 15 years here. If you look at the bottom left corner you’ll see our plant. It’s 6 stories high.
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WOWZERS! How timley to have captured that!
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twilliams Storms never used to bother me . In fact I used to like watching them. But getting hit hurt! My arms and shoulders hurt for 2 days.I was leaning against my steel shop when it hit the house so I just got what came though the ground.Still knocked me about 6 ft
RON PARRISH I was 8 years old and the big walnut at the immediate rear corner of the house got nailed. Threw bark 100’ out to the road and tree was on fire. Loudest boom I’ve ever heard. Dropped me to my knees instantly. Super impressive on the power it creates
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cdavis WOW. The person taking that shot was close. That was definitely showing the power of nature. Yikes
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cdavis
Incredible! Hats off to the man who captured this. This wins photo of the year, if not all time!
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have any of you ever seen lightning going sideways in the sky ?
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craigrice said in Big bang at work.:
have any of you ever seen lightning going sideways in the sky ?
Many times. Love T Storms. Just the power is amazing.
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craigrice yep, mostly chain lightning
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cdavis that has to be one of the most spectacular looking lightening photos I’ve ever seen. Us humans like to think we are in control. We definitely can’t control mother nature. Thanks for posting.
GWG8541 isn’t that the truth.
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cdavis
Incredible! Hats off to the man who captured this. This wins photo of the year, if not all time!
Hope he gets some recognition.PapaSop I too hope he gets some recognition. But I don’t even hear any of the local people talking about it. I show it to about everyone I meet. Most just act like it’s no big deal. That’s why I started not to post it on here. I thought it was amazing. I’m glad some of enjoyed it or I would have felt stupid.
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craigrice yes I’ve seen side ways lighting several times. Always amazed by it.
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craigrice In my previous life flying in South/Central America’s and Carribean you could watch the cloud to cloud lightening move across the sky, move along the towering cumulus as they build skyward as you pick a safe path while trying to keep your distance.
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Several years ago I was fishing from a boat with my family in open water on Merit reservoir in the Nebraska Sandhills. We could hear some thunder in the distance and were preparing to pull anchor and get off the water.
About that time I notice my daughters long black hair was sticking straight out in all directions from the static electrical charge that had accumulated in the air over the water. It was the strangest and scariest thing I had ever seen since I knew how much voltage it took to cause someone’s hair to stand up like that.
I fired up the engine and gunned it to the nearest shoreline we could reach and got everyone on shore till we felt safe.
I think back to how badly that could have ended. Lightning can do really odd and spectacular things.
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Watched a spectacular lightning show in West Texas last weekend while dove hunting. We watched it from our trucks, once it passed the birds started moving again.
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Several years ago I was fishing from a boat with my family in open water on Merit reservoir in the Nebraska Sandhills. We could hear some thunder in the distance and were preparing to pull anchor and get off the water.
About that time I notice my daughters long black hair was sticking straight out in all directions from the static electrical charge that had accumulated in the air over the water. It was the strangest and scariest thing I had ever seen since I knew how much voltage it took to cause someone’s hair to stand up like that.
I fired up the engine and gunned it to the nearest shoreline we could reach and got everyone on shore till we felt safe.
I think back to how badly that could have ended. Lightning can do really odd and spectacular things.
processhead that was an extremely close call you had. Thank goodness all ended well
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processhead that was an extremely close call you had. Thank goodness all ended well
I have been hit in an airplane a couple of times it gets pretty quiet as everyone is checking to make sure that the wings are still on and systems are still operating.
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I have been hit in an airplane a couple of times it gets pretty quiet as everyone is checking to make sure that the wings are still on and systems are still operating.
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I have been hit in an airplane a couple of times it gets pretty quiet as everyone is checking to make sure that the wings are still on and systems are still operating.
YooperDog said in Big bang at work.:
I have been hit in an airplane a couple of times it gets pretty quiet as everyone is checking to make sure that the wings are still on and systems are still operating.
Its seem bizarre that a plane can withstand a direct hit like that, until you consider there is no path to ground with a plane in the air.
Kind of like the birds sitting on a high voltage power line.
Paul
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