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Old 08-05-2006   #18 (permalink)
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Re: Lightning

We had some interesting lightning about a week ago. Storms rolled in after sweltering heat. The thing about the lightning in this storm was it sounded like shotguns. Blam Blam. Like two shots going off per strike. It was most unusual.

My brother was very good at finding ground strikes. We would wander our cow pasture after storms and he could find the spots where it hit. Small holes, no bigger than a ground squirrel entrance, but if you reached into them, they only went down a few inches (six at the most). I argued with him over it and between the depth of the hole and him pointing out the little clumps of dirt on the ground around us (2-5 feet from the hole) convinced me he was right. I was never as good as he was at spotting these.

Note: this pasture was well grazed and more like a 20 acre yard than a field of grass.
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