Re: OT - jeeeezus christ


"onlyme" <onlyme_sitting@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Chris X" <chris_x@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> "Maria" <frustated@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> > On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 17:45:37 +0000 (UTC), "onlyme"
>> > <onlyme_sitting@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> >>Just driven through Bradford after a day out with family. Encountered
> the
>> >>mother of all thunder storms!
>> >>If anyone knows the area, we were driving up from Greengates towards
>> >>the
>> >>ring road and we could see it getting darker the nearer we got to
> Bradford
>> >>(and Bradford is 'dark' enough to begin with!!)...weather was very
>> >>close
>> >>and
>> >>humid, and obviously a storm was brewing.
>> >>We thought we might just make the ring road in time and skirt around
>> >>the
>> >>edge of it...WRONG!
>> >>Within the space of 2 minutes, the weather went from bright, skicky and
>> >>humid...to near night with torrential rain, howling winds and quite a
> few
>> >>bolts of lightning landing too near for comfort.
>> >>I've been in storms before but to be witness to such a sudden and
>> >>change
>> >>in
>> >>the weather....WOW it was very impressive...and more than a little
>> >>scary
>> >>too!
>> >>I can only imagine what people subject to hurricanes must go through.
>> >>We were right under it at it's worst and with wipers on full,
>> >>visibility
>> >>was
>> >>virtually zero!
>> >
>> > I wish it would come here - I feel really ill from the humidty today
>> > and it's just getting worse.
>> >
>> >>Question - how safe is it to be actually driving in a car in a severe
>> >>thunder/lightning storm?....I'm talking about danger from the lightning
>> >>rather than crashing/skidding etc...if a bolt actually struck the car,
>> >>would
>> >>the passengers be perfectly insulated? Assuming the lighning could
>> >>actually
>> >>get to earth via the sheer amount of water that was on the
>> >>tyres/road....but
>> >>as we had the windows up and the inside of the car was not unlike a
> sauna
>> >>in
>> >>the heat....would there be any danger to the occupants?
>> >>Perhaps any electricians in the NG might offer some opinion?
>> >>
>> >
>> > I thought with the rubber tyres the car would behave like a Faraday
>> > Cage and you would be safe. ?
>>
>> You're safe because the electrical current travels along the outside of
> the
>> conductor (ie the metal body of the car) and dissipates to the ground
>> through paths that include the tyres and the rainwater.
>>
> That's what I have always assumed.
> Youngest daughter was terrified and in tears. I was trying to reassure
> her,
> but then started thinking about the amount of rain on outside combined
> with
> the high humidity on inside...and to be honest, ended up persuading myself
> that perhaps we weren't that safe after all... (it 'was' a very scary
> thunderstorm....now, where's my teddy!...lol)

Fucking astraphobe !


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