Re: OT - jeeeezus christ


"Claire" <claire.easthope@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Chris X wrote:
> > "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 !
> >
> >
>
> Brahahahaha! Beahahahah!


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