Thanks for the story, brother, I love it when youngsters ask questions like that, seems I always get a bit wiser hearing and seeing it through their eyes.
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I just wanna know has anyone been close enough to a "strike" to feel a little tingle and smell/feel the ozone burn yer nose, hehe, 'cause I have, WHEW!
I've been lucky more than once, have an acquaintance that still has the scar from the zipper on her dress when it "hit" her, she's lucky, for sure!!! (she was a little girl in a swing when it occurred)
Also adopted a wolf hybrid (a promise to the elderly couple across the road from my place in the case the were to pass before he/wolf passed) when he and the elderly gentleman were sitting outside one day a stray storm was passing. This is quite common here in the Mid-South, accompanied with random lightning strikes.
Lightning hit the corner of the house, but ran through the "slab"/foundation, and gave them a pretty good jolt, his wife was inside and insulated by the wood floors.
He told me it felt like his butt was on fire and rattling, but stuck to the concrete steps, and the wolf hybrid bolted and it was a few days before he returned.I hunted the woods for two days off and on all around the place, and never a site. He was solid white! pretty hard to miss, unless he wanted to "disappear"!
After that he would go into a terrible panic when he began to hear storms. This would be far in advance of any knowledge except the Radar, and when they were of the type that were prone to pop up quick, he would be a good barometer.
Poor fella was a mess, and even though over 120, and 32" plus, he could get in the smallest of places when he got scared, and was actually quite timid usually(my 21 yr old and I were just wishing we had measured the big rascal, one of the best house critters EVER!)
As fer all that "ciphering" I admit to acing Organic and the Physics lab, but despised the math involved, so that was one of my only failing college courses.
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