Re: OT - jeeeezus christ


"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)


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