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 Re: lightning deaths
[Re: bassackwardwm]
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05/03/07 10:53 PM
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MrSkinner713
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SO you mean its not safe for me to hold my graphite fishing rod up in the air while standing in my 16' aluminum boat durring a lightning storm?  by the way if you can see lightning it can see you there have been confirmed reports of people getting struck by lightning when the storm was 10 miles away 
Last edited by Catfish713; 05/03/07 10:55 PM.
Tight lines and God bless!
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Re: lightning deaths
[Re: Mike L]
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05/04/07 12:40 AM
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dk44
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my brother and his friend went outside during a rain storm, and lighting hit the ground 10 yards from where they were standing
sensitive isnt crying after a sad movie, its when you can feel a bass nibble on your jig 20 feet down..
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Re: lightning deaths
[Re: dk44]
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05/04/07 12:44 AM
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Kat-man-do
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Lightning has been known to travel as far as 20 miles, and spider lightning goes much further.
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Re: lightning deaths
[Re: MrSkinner713]
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05/04/07 03:31 AM
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Allison1
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SO you mean its not safe for me to hold my graphite fishing rod up in the air while standing in my 16' aluminum boat durring a lightning storm? Just make sure the rod does not buzz too loud..... Or that the line floats off the water...... Lightning like any electricity follows the path of least resistance. Thats why rubber soles and anything that insulates will provide protection from the strike. Not a safety factor if it does hit you but in prevention. A fact about lightning that won't save your life but anyway.....lightning starts from both the cloud and the ground at the same time and meets in the middle.
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Re: lightning deaths
[Re: Allison1]
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05/04/07 01:18 PM
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Allen_TX_Basser
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I have experienced line float and rod buzz ONCE! Did I mention only once? Back when I was young dumb and full of some fishin fun. Now im smarter, older and wiser...well, older. But anyways. I am 100% sorry that this happened to these people, dont get me wrong. But this is kind of like the drowning problems we have in our community. All to often one of us, or even a pair of us, is killed because we wont wear a life vest. Same thing hear. Lightning kills. It doesnt matter your race, your age, sex or political affiliation. The point is, if it looks like a storm, get indoors man. Those fish will wait. And as far as fishing for money, if your in my boat, and we hear thunder, were heading for cover. Money or no money. My life is worth more than a livewell full (or empty) of fish.
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Re: lightning deaths
[Re: Allen_TX_Basser]
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05/04/07 01:26 PM
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Poorboy
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I have experienced line float and rod buzz ONCE! Did I mention only once? Back when I was young dumb and full of some fishin fun. Now im smarter, older and wiser...well, older. But anyways. I am 100% sorry that this happened to these people, dont get me wrong. But this is kind of like the drowning problems we have in our community. All to often one of us, or even a pair of us, is killed because we wont wear a life vest. Same thing hear. Lightning kills. It doesnt matter your race, your age, sex or political affiliation. The point is, if it looks like a storm, get indoors man. Those fish will wait. And as far as fishing for money, if your in my boat, and we hear thunder, were heading for cover. Money or no money. My life is worth more than a livewell full (or empty) of fish.  Well Put!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Re: lightning deaths
[Re: Allen_TX_Basser]
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05/04/07 09:20 PM
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Jim Wolfe
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Feb of 2006 fishing the Bass Weekend series at LL was the worse lighting I have ever kept fishing in.
I was trying to fish and somehow scrunch my head down between my shoulders as far as it would go...LOL!
When a bolt hit just on the other side of 35 from us I had enough and had just decided to lie down in the cockpit when my boater decided that was too close and we made for the bank to sit it out.
But from now on I will be the first to start to whine when it gets that close.
Can't fish if your dead!
Jim Wolfe
Davey Crockett to US Congress upon his resignation- "You all can go to hell, I'm going to Texas".
"You know how you can always tell when a politician is lying? Because their lips are moving"!!!
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Re: lightning deaths
[Re: Jim Wolfe]
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05/07/07 03:14 PM
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Ofart
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Count the seconds between when you see the lightening and hear the thunder. 14 second is about a mile away.
When my kids were small, I didn't want them to become afraid of storms like their mother, but to have respect for the power they produce.
We were standing on the porch watching a big storm in Colo. and counting the seconds. Started at about 25 miles away. As it got closer the kids would call out the miles. At one mile, I told them it was time to go inside. They gave started with the whinning about not wanting to go inside. After a few minutes of whinning, a bolt split the tree at the end of the block. Whinning stopped. They learned the power and how to guage the distance and when to take cover.
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Re: lightning deaths
[Re: Ofart]
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05/07/07 06:14 PM
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catchalunker
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I have a caveat to the rubber boots or rubber anything and lightning. We have always heard that a car is a safe place to be during lightning...........Well, growing up, my father's truck was parked in the street in front of home, lightning hit and melted the telephone booster antenna mounted on the top of the cab. Amazingly, truck started next morning (but died stone cold dead with a hafty repair bill after about a block). Moral of the story, if rubber tires dont stop lightning, i cant put a thick enough rubber sole on my boots. Play it safe.
save a few big ones for me
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Re: lightning deaths
[Re: catchalunker]
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05/07/07 06:23 PM
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CutThroat
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The smell that's around the lightening strike area is something you'll never forget. A tree in our grove was hit when I was about ten. We walked out there after the storm and it had split it from top to bottom.
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Re: lightning deaths
[Re: catchalunker]
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05/07/07 06:24 PM
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bgibson
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I work with a cousin of the man who was struck and killed in Cameron, she said his rods had gotten tangled as he was trying to depart the area, and as he was attempting to cut the line to get the rods untangled lighting stuck the knife he was using.
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Re: lightning deaths
[Re: catchalunker]
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05/07/07 06:25 PM
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Goujon
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Had lightning hit the road beside my truck driving down I-10, knocked out the radio and I could feel it tingling in my shoulder joints. I leave the water when I hear thunder getting close. Have been struck indirectly, hit a phone pole outside the window where I was talking on the phone. It cut me a back flip out of the chair I was sitting in.
"If this ain't a mess, it will do till one gets here."
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Re: lightning deaths
[Re: Goujon]
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05/07/07 09:27 PM
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divot
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If you are outside and you can hear thunder the storm is close enough to be dangerous. The best way to measure how far the lightning strike was is by counting off the distance between the lightning and thunder in seconds. The sound of thunder can travel one mile in five seconds. After you see the lightning began counting off the seconds. If, for example, you count ten seconds then the lightning was two miles away. Scientists say if you are less than six miles away you are in the high danger zone. This is because lightning can strike several miles away from a storm cloud. Lightning distance calculator
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Re: lightning deaths
[Re: catchalunker]
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05/10/07 02:22 PM
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Ofart
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Moral of the story, if rubber tires dont stop lightning, i cant put a thick enough rubber sole on my boots. Play it safe. Rubber will insulate but if it's covered in water, the electricity travels through the water. P.S. Transmitting antena's send out a positive charge and attract lightening. So don't be using a cell phone or other transmitters during storm. 
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Re: lightning deaths
[Re: Ofart]
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05/10/07 04:47 PM
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gregorkhan
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One poster said that a 14 second delay from lightning to thunder indicates a strike 1 mile away. Given that sound travels through air at about 1000 feet per second, the actual distance is about 1 mile per 5 second delay.
The reason that cars, airplanes, and other enclosed spaces are safe in a lightning storm is that they create what is know as a Gaussian cage. Electrical current (which is what kills you) will not flow through a Gaussian cage, it only flows around it.
G Hupf
McKinney, TX
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