Thunderstorm W/ Lightning going on outside right now. You see where I am. :)

My aunt and uncle built a house on my grandfather's ranch in the early 70's. We used to spend a lot of weekends up there when it was being built. It was on one of the highest spots of land and was almost entirely windows because the view was so incredible.

Anyhoo, one weekend we were there and there was a huge lightning storm. A strike hit the house and we saw sparks fly out of all the electrical sockets. After they repaired all that, they put up a lightning rod ;)

The house we lived in Savannah had some sort of weird lightning attractor in the back yard. We had 3 strikes there in the 18 months we lived in it. Once it wrapped around a tree and the tree was on fire just in the circular motion for about 5 minutes, once the same thing happened as at my aunt and uncle's - the sparks came through the sockets, and once we just watched as it hit directly in the backyard and left a burn mark.

I'm not scared of much, but I have mucho respect for Mother Nature.

Thankfully, Peachy, I have not had lightning ever hit that close to me, ever. It's hit close, like in my neighborhood a few times, knocked out the power for a while, but that's it.

It think if it hit my house and sparks flew out of all of my electrical sockets I would shit myself.

Then swear like a pissed-off sailor who just discovered he forgot his wallet on shore leave on half price hooker night.

You are kidding yourself.

Any more good lightning stories?

Been some good thunderboomers around the country this summer already.

out there ... eager to see the lightnings hehe

thunderboomer right now.

you'd be fine on a cordless, but the base will be fried.

I live in So Cal. All I get is a heavy marine layer at times. It's pretty frightening.

When there's a lightning I use my laptop powered by a battery and mobile internet with 3g modem :pimp

I live in an area that gets more lightning strikes than anywhere else in North America and I take almost zero precautions other than surge protection, why?

The number of people killed by lightning strikes in the last 5 years = :jerkoff

That's pretty much my thinking on it, but a lot of people still have fears about it and take all kinds of precautions and avoid doing certain things.

I haven't heard about anyone getting killed by lightning in the past few years, but you still hear the stories about someone dying in the shower during an electrical storm, or the like. Some people get paranoid I guess.

no haha thanks for the heads up

I do unless I see a lightning bolt in my yard.