<![CDATA[Big bang at work.]]>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.

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/topic/4245/big-bang-at-workRSS for NodeThu, 10 Sep 2026 22:46:28 GMTThu, 09 Sep 2021 01:02:53 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Big bang at work. on Sun, 12 Sep 2021 04:20:12 GMT]]>processhead Usually you will find some arcing across the surface and a hole where it exists

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/47473https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/47473Sun, 12 Sep 2021 04:20:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Big bang at work. on Sat, 11 Sep 2021 15:38:23 GMT]]>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.

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/47434https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/47434Sat, 11 Sep 2021 15:38:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Big bang at work. on Sat, 11 Sep 2021 12:26:40 GMT]]>YooperDog 😳yikes!

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/47416https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/47416Sat, 11 Sep 2021 12:26:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Big bang at work. on Sat, 11 Sep 2021 03:43:42 GMT]]>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.

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/47412https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/47412Sat, 11 Sep 2021 03:43:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Big bang at work. on Fri, 10 Sep 2021 18:06:36 GMT]]>processhead that was an extremely close call you had. Thank goodness all ended well

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/47320https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/47320Fri, 10 Sep 2021 18:06:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Big bang at work. on Fri, 10 Sep 2021 16:49:03 GMT]]>Great photo.

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/47309https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/47309Fri, 10 Sep 2021 16:49:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Big bang at work. on Fri, 10 Sep 2021 15:14:46 GMT]]>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.

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/47303https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/47303Fri, 10 Sep 2021 15:14:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Big bang at work. on Fri, 10 Sep 2021 14:52:15 GMT]]>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.

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/47299https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/47299Fri, 10 Sep 2021 14:52:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Big bang at work. on Fri, 10 Sep 2021 12:19:22 GMT]]>cdavis amazing photo!!

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/47293https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/47293Fri, 10 Sep 2021 12:19:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Big bang at work. on Fri, 10 Sep 2021 02:18:57 GMT]]>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.

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/47291https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/47291Fri, 10 Sep 2021 02:18:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Big bang at work. on Fri, 10 Sep 2021 01:13:17 GMT]]>craigrice yes I’ve seen side ways lighting several times. Always amazed by it.

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/47284https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/47284Fri, 10 Sep 2021 01:13:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Big bang at work. on Fri, 10 Sep 2021 01:11:10 GMT]]>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.

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/47281https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/47281Fri, 10 Sep 2021 01:11:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Big bang at work. on Fri, 10 Sep 2021 00:58:27 GMT]]>GWG8541 isn’t that the truth.

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/47279https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/47279Fri, 10 Sep 2021 00:58:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Big bang at work. on Thu, 09 Sep 2021 23:37:02 GMT]]>craigrice yep, mostly chain lightning

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/47278https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/47278Thu, 09 Sep 2021 23:37:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Big bang at work. on Thu, 09 Sep 2021 23:06:47 GMT]]>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.

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/47275https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/47275Thu, 09 Sep 2021 23:06:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Big bang at work. on Thu, 09 Sep 2021 22:58:12 GMT]]>have any of you ever seen lightning going sideways in the sky ?

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/47273https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/47273Thu, 09 Sep 2021 22:58:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Big bang at work. on Thu, 09 Sep 2021 22:53:43 GMT]]>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.

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/47271https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/47271Thu, 09 Sep 2021 22:53:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Big bang at work. on Thu, 09 Sep 2021 22:34:43 GMT]]>cdavis WOW. The person taking that shot was close. That was definitely showing the power of nature. Yikes

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/47269https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/47269Thu, 09 Sep 2021 22:34:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Big bang at work. on Thu, 09 Sep 2021 21:25:46 GMT]]>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

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/47266https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/47266Thu, 09 Sep 2021 21:25:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Big bang at work. on Thu, 09 Sep 2021 19:58:57 GMT]]>WOWZERS! How timley to have captured that!
Amazing Bolt!!

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/47265https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/47265Thu, 09 Sep 2021 19:58:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Big bang at work. on Thu, 09 Sep 2021 19:29:57 GMT]]>cdavis
Awesome picture, thank you for sharing

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/47264https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/47264Thu, 09 Sep 2021 19:29:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Big bang at work. on Thu, 09 Sep 2021 17:55:03 GMT]]>cdavis that is a fantastic photo!

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/47263https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/47263Thu, 09 Sep 2021 17:55:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Big bang at work. on Thu, 09 Sep 2021 17:47:05 GMT]]>Lake place has been struck twice, once we weren’t there and luckily the neighbors saw it and called fire department, other time we were there and just had to fix a little wiring and outlets.

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/47262https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/47262Thu, 09 Sep 2021 17:47:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Big bang at work. on Thu, 09 Sep 2021 17:24:01 GMT]]>House got hit about 2:00 AM in 2008. By luck I saw a hint of smoke through a plumbing plumbing pipe hole.
Immediately Called the fire dept. and cleared the house still had $150,000 worth of damage
Fire had started in the basement through the electrical wiring

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/47261https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/47261Thu, 09 Sep 2021 17:24:01 GMT