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Weather Watchers

bcool

(233 posts)

1. We've been hit twice

Reply to catbyte (Original post)

Wed Oct 13, 2021, 05:35 PM

Oct 2021

Our frame home had been hit TWICE by lightning in the 23 years we've lived here. The last time it zapped every electric device in the house, including our Chevy Volt that was plugged in.

Fortunately, we never had a fire as a result of the strikes. We're the 2nd highest home in the neighborhood, so maybe that's why we attract the bolts

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This is why you need to go inside a sturdy building when lightning is within 10 miles of you. [View all] catbyte Oct 2021 OP

We've been hit twice bcool Oct 2021 #1

How terrible! MyOwnPeace Oct 2021 #3

I was maybe a dozen feet from a utility pole that got hit by a bolt.. lastlib Oct 2021 #2

Last week lightening struck Palm trees BigmanPigman Oct 2021 #4

I was standing in my kitchen during a thunderstorm. luvs2sing Oct 2021 #5

I had lightning strike the tree outside the house about 30' bucolic_frolic Oct 2021 #6

lightning hit a huge white pine behind the family cottage one year. no fire, but a big mess of pansypoo53219 Oct 2021 #7