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RatdogWillie Serious Thumper Offline Nostalgia isn't what it used to be... Posts: 854 Johnstown, PA. Gender:	Lightning strikes moving Pickup Truck 06/08/14 at 20:59:10 Canada : Lightning strikes moving Pickup Truck caught on Security Camera http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uJssAUdZ8A#t=20
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verslagen1 YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline Where there's a will, I want to be in it. Posts: 28905 L.A. California Gender:	Re: Lightning strikes moving Pickup Truck Reply #1 - 06/08/14 at 23:04:57 yep that was a good one left huge holes in pavement truck was said to be totaled something was melted and doors would not open.
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: Lightning strikes moving Pickup Truck Reply #2 - 06/09/14 at 08:29:25 YIKES!! Ive been told numerous times lightening wont hit a car because the tires have them insulated,, maybe old dude was dragging something? Looked like 2 wheels were making good enough of a ground to pass enough current to blow the asphalt up, tho.. Man,, that was somethin!
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Reply #3 - 06/09/14 at 10:28:43

"YIKES!! Ive been told numerous times lightening wont hit a car because the tires have them insulated."

Nothing can protect a car from getting hit by lightning. The tires are not enough insulation to make much difference. If the lightning can jump thousands of feet through the air, the 5 inches of car tire is nothing. The advantage of being in vehicle when lightning strikes is that the car body provides protection from electrical shock because it is a primative Faraday cage. Objects inside such a cage are protected from electrical shock because the current grounds through the cage.

That car DID protect the occupants. If they would not have been inside the car, they would have been DEAD.

Edit: Correction on Faraday cages. The cage dissipates the charge through the entire cage, thus cancelling the charge for occupants inside the cage.

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Dave YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 18138 Camp Springs, Kentucky Gender:	Re: Lightning strikes moving Pickup Truck Reply #4 - 06/09/14 at 11:16:40 Their breathing problems are most likely from the air bags deploying and the explosives that inflated the bags. That.....along with getting the daylights spooked out of Ya!
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: Lightning strikes moving Pickup Truck Reply #5 - 06/09/14 at 20:36:15 There woulda been plenty of "breathing problems" if I had been in there. When MY air bag "deploys" the explosive that drives IT has a kinda brownish tint to it,, Need more than a rear view air freshener, ya know wha ahm sayun, huhh?
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ToesNose Serious Thumper Offline Pardon me, do you have Hot Sauce? Posts: 1993 Mooresville, NC Gender:	Re: Lightning strikes moving Pickup Truck Reply #6 - 06/10/14 at 06:08:55 Grounding is for conductivity creating a path of least resistance, but just because something is grounded doesn't mean it can handle a huge overload of current.....IE: Lightning
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Reply #7 - 06/10/14 at 06:35:49

Absolutely,., all that a little drag chain would do is establish flow.,,.the ionized air would take the place of the vaporized chain,,My Big Question is

Those 2 holes in the asphalt look to be about "wheel" distance apart.

Soo,, is that what jumped the voltage down? Im not "getting" exactly where the current went. I see the top O th truck,, looks covered, then,, meeeh,, its all too fast for me,

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Reply #8 - 06/10/14 at 11:01:07

I would guess the lighting passed through the metal shell and frame of the truck, then jumped the air gap from the bumpers down to the pavement.

I inspected a school that had a brick chimney that received a lightning strike. The brick was blown away from the crack it made in the chimney, and there was a trail of broken brick that was laying on the roof, then out into the front yard of the school about 100 feet. Weird....it blew everthing out in a straight line.

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Reply #9 - 06/11/14 at 09:31:44

I had a red oak that got hit,,It blew parts of it UP & where it passed down the trunk it dried it, fireplace ready, kinda harsh on the chainsaw blade,,

& blew dirt off the top of lots of the roots as far away from the base as 12 to 15 feet..I was riding up towards the house when it hit. I was problee 200 yards or so away. The flash, the immediate CRASH of the thunder,, I jumped so hard I nearly crashed the bike,

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Reply #10 - 06/13/14 at 07:39:15

Was at a friends house when lightning struck a small pine tree (20') in his back yard next to his corner fence.
The lightning split the tree and blew his fence post apart at the top.
Ground smoldered around it for about half an hour, we didn't go out till the next morning when the storm stopped.
When we were digging the next week to replace the fence post we found that the roots of the tree were like glass, hard and shattered when hit with a shovel....it had crystalized the sap in the tree.

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BalingWire Full Member Offline "The savage in man is never quite eradicated." HDT Posts: 238 Wauseon, Ohio Gender:	Re: Lightning strikes moving Pickup Truck Reply #11 - 06/17/14 at 08:15:49 Another good reason to not have electric windows in my pick-em-up truck.
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: Lightning strikes moving Pickup Truck Reply #12 - 06/18/14 at 11:11:48 My sister had a house hit. It followed the wiring thru a coupla rooms, blowing the sheetrock up along the path of the wires. Didnt burn the place , no fires, but a path in all the sheetrock a few inches wide where wires were close,,
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