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Holy Sheep Chit Batman...
RMAN4443 Offline
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Was just sitting here, and wife and dog were out on back deck....the skies got really dark...Then there was a loud explosion...really, an explosion!!!!

I went running out back and my dog ran past me going the other way....my wife ran into me as she came through the slider on the run.....turns out lightening struck a huge old tree out beyond the fence,about 40 yards from the deck ...the tree split at the fork, and it's smoldering down inside the trunk, gonna have to call the fire dept.....maybe not,it's raining so hard I can't even see the tree now....

dog is still under the bed (moving and shaking Frank)...LoL….but it's a nervous LoL(really)

I gotta go change my fishnets...
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If you wanna be safe you oughtta go hunker down under that tree... lightning never strikes twice and such...
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opelmanta1900 wrote:
If you wanna be safe you oughtta go hunker down under that tree... lightning never strikes twice and such...

yeah, that's what I was just telling the wife....

great minds do think alike...Anxious

wife says there's no way she's going over there....it looks like the part that split off, that's still hung up on the trunk part, is gonna fall over...
I told her we could sit on the other side...Herfing
delta1 Offline
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sounds like fun...24 days too late, tho...
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Are you sure it wasn't a microwave burst from SSG Survellience?
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Be safe, that's to close for comfort. I'd probably still be shaking.
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Wuss.. Mellow
Gene363 Offline
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Wow! Too close.

We had lightening take out a large pine about ten feet from the house. My wife was on the back porch and saw bark flying past the corner of the house. The tree was stone dead.

Check all your electronics, we had it take out electronics that were not even plugged into a power socket. Lightening can induce currents in cables strong enough to fry things.
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The Lovely Caren would have a For Sale sign on the lawn by morning.
DrafterX Offline
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Willow trees are like lightning magnets.. had one hit in my yard several years ago... Mellow
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all is well, no electronics, or any damage, other than the tree...

Rain seems to have put out the fire, we got about an inch and a half in less than an hour....


Going to have to take down the tree because it's hung up on the trunk side and looks like it's gonna fall...don't want anyone hurt...I have a buddy who likes to play Paul Bunyan to help drop the whole tree...I'll probably get out of it for a cooler full of beers, dinner, and an after dinner cigar or two....maybe one of the "Custom Rolled" cigars...alright, almoat definitely one or two of the "Custom Rolls" Anxious

Dog is still pretty skittish in the backyard...some kids on dirt bikes went by out in the woods....Damn I didn't know she could run that fast...


thanks for the well wishes guysBeer
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up early this morning and my buddy came by and we got the hung up part of the tree down...will get the rest of it down and cut up next weekend

On the plus side , I'll have plenty of wood for the smoker, the firepit, and the White Mountain Boogie for several years....the tree was a huge old sugar maple....in the neighbor hood of 150 years old, about a 3+ foot diameter trunk at base and 40 or so feet tall.....Damn that Mother Nature is a strong biotch when she's angry...

on the down side, the foliage won't be as pretty out there anymore...that was always the first tree to start changing colors...it would start to turn a bright gold color towards the end of August, and slowly turn to a bright reddish color by mid- October....the color display will be missed...
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Plant a new one near the stump next arbor day. Long after you are gone others will enjoy it, just as you have enjoyed this tree. Or plant one now in honor people who are gone but not forgotten. I planted a few of my mom's favorite trees in memory of her this last arbor day. Every time I look at them it makes me smile.
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Speyside wrote:
Plant a new one near the stump next arbor day. Long after you are gone others will enjoy it, just as you have enjoyed this tree. Or plant one now in honor people who are gone but not forgotten. I planted a few of my mom's favorite trees in memory of her this last arbor day. Every time I look at them it makes me smile.

Great Idea...I think I'll do that...

I'm going to plant another maple out there in memory of my MIL....she always used to sit on the deck with my wife and she would always marvel at the colors during foliage season...
I just mentioned it to my wife and she is all excited about the idea... she's ready to go do it now, lol, I told her it would probably work out better if we wait to clean up the old tree first
Your suggestion really made her day...Thanks for that Beer
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Plant 3 of them real close together and braid them together... ThumpUp
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RMAN4443 wrote:
Was just sitting here, and wife and dog were out on back deck....the skies got really dark...Then there was a loud explosion...really, an explosion!!!!

I went running out back and my dog ran past me going the other way....my wife ran into me as she came through the slider on the run.....turns out lightening struck a huge old tree out beyond the fence,about 40 yards from the deck ...the tree split at the fork, and it's smoldering down inside the trunk, gonna have to call the fire dept.....maybe not,it's raining so hard I can't even see the tree now....

dog is still under the bed (moving and shaking Frank)...LoL….but it's a nervous LoL(really)

I gotta go change my fishnets...



We had a lightning strike 2 weeks ago at our house very similar to what you described. Storm blew in real fast when we were feeding the horses. All of a sudden the hair on my arms stood straight up and I saw a blinding flash. 2 seconds later was a roaring boom that sounded like I was on an artillery range again. It damned near knocked me to my feet. Wife came running because she was up by the house and saw what happened. She said it hit right behind the barn. It didn't hit a tree and it didn't hit the grounding rod but you could smell an acid smell like burning metal and plastic in the air.

Scary stuff for sure.
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Gene363 wrote:
Wow! Too close.

We had lightening take out a large pine about ten feet from the house. My wife was on the back porch and saw bark flying past the corner of the house. The tree was stone dead.

Check all your electronics, we had it take out electronics that were not even plugged into a power socket. Lightening can induce currents in cables strong enough to fry things.


you got that right...20 years or so ago, lightning struck about 200 yards from home...we were watching TV at the time, a 50 inch plasma...the screen went black for a millisecond, then there was a flash of white light, some sizzling sounds and a faint odor of burnt electronics...
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DrafterX wrote:
Plant 3 of them real close together and braid them together... ThumpUp

I think you just made a great idea even better...Thanks Beer
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A tree split by lightning makes a Wonderful baseball bat.

fog
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opelmanta1900 wrote:
If you wanna be safe you oughtta go hunker down under that tree... lightning never strikes twice and such...

Tell it to Reg. Sarcasm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VWl1dK6pc4

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thurson wrote:
A tree split by lightning makes a Wonderful baseball bat.

fog

How so? Does the wood get altered by the lightening?

I may just give it a go,I do have a wood lathe and all...it might be kinda cool to make my grandson a bat out of the tree he used to climb...Think
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Ram has a bat... Mellow
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I have planted enough trees to be an honorary member of the Sierra club. I never waited until Arbor Day. I always started planting the weekend after I got the shipment of seedlings from Drake’s Crossing Nursery. I have Douglas fir, hemlock, white pine, Giant sequoias, western red cedar, the list goes on. Reforestation takes time.
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RMAN4443 wrote:
How so? Does the wood get altered by the lightening?

I may just give it a go,I do have a wood lathe and all...it might be kinda cool to make my grandson a bat out of the tree he used to climb...Think

Redford movie The Natural...
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frankj1 wrote:
Redford movie The Natural...

Oh, lot of water under the bridge since I've seen that movie...at the rate I kill brain cells, that seems to be one of the memories I sacrificedBombed
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RMAN4443 wrote:
Oh, lot of water under the bridge since I've seen that movie...at the rate I kill brain cells, that seems to be one of the memories I sacrificedBombed

I often wonder what great stuff is totally gone and why I still have so much mediocre crap in my mental file cabinet.
I wish we could select what gets saved as we lose brain data.

do I know you?
RMAN4443 Offline
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frankj1 wrote:
I often wonder what great stuff is totally gone and why I still have so much mediocre crap in my mental file cabinet.
I wish we could select what gets saved as we lose brain data.

do I know you?

Not Biblically. ...I'm pretty sure I'd remember that Anxious
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Remember that time at band camp..?? Huh
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no
frankj1 Offline
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that was tw
DrafterX Offline
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So you do remember... Cause I wasn't there... Not talking
frankj1 Offline
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you crossed me up, you master of word play.
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Drafter is a cunning linguist ...
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so you were at Band Camp!
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