I was struck by lightning yesterday—and boy am I sore

Re:I was struck by lightning yesterday—and boy am I sore by shaydoc on Thursday May 23, 2013 @04:33PM (#5759360)

Lightning toasted my house in 2007, just arrived home 30 mins after it happened, glad I wasn't in the house given the magnitude of the destruction...TV exploded scrapnel everywhere, ceilings down upstairs and down....but worst of all, dealing with our insurance company for damages...

Can't believe this guy is not the only family member to have been hit, insane!

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Re:I was struck by lightning yesterday—and boy am I sore by robflynn on Thursday May 23, 2013 @04:42PM (#5759412)

One of my co-workers was working with some radio equipment years ago. A storm started moving in and he decided to go turn off the equipment and unplug things. Just as he got over to the equipment, lightning struck.

He woke up on his floor, could smell something burning, and found electrical components all over the place -- some embedded in the wall.

What happened afterward was kind of amusing. He went to the ER and signed in. The front desk nurse said something about their being a long wait (this was before they wrote down the reason.) Him describing the doctor running into the room moments later saying "You got struck by what!?" was pretty funny.

They ran tests and thankfully everything was fine. He didn't take a direct hit, I guess. No crazy scars or anything... hearing, heart, et. al were fine.

Anyway, my main point is, lightning is some crazy stuff.

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Re:I was struck by lightning yesterday—and boy am I sore by legitsource on Thursday May 23, 2013 @05:33PM (#5759655)

A few years back, I was standing in a puddle in a shed plugging in a golf cart when lightning hit a few feet away from me. It was like a bomb going off, vaporizing sheets of drywall, turning the wooden beams into splinters, and blowing a chunk out of the concrete.

In the room upstairs, it melted a mirror and fried all the electrical devices. A monitor close by got a really neat wavy pattern like it was exposed to a magnet.

All in all, that was a terrible afternoon at work.

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Re:I was struck by lightning yesterday—and boy am I sore by defen on Thursday May 23, 2013 @06:00PM (#5759793)

Setting aside the lightning incident, would it be considered imprudent to plug in an electrical device while standing in water?

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Re:I was struck by lightning yesterday—and boy am I sore by legitsource on Friday May 24, 2013 @03:05PM (#5764704)

I was working at a golf course plugging a charging cord into a golf cart. There was at least a small puddle in that building 24/7.

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Re:I was struck by lightning yesterday—and boy am I sore by Kliment on Friday May 24, 2013 @02:26AM (#5761500)

If your socket has a ground fault interrupter, no. In every other case, yes.

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Re:I was struck by lightning yesterday—and boy am I sore by derleth on Thursday May 23, 2013 @04:57PM (#5759501)

> scrapnel

The usual word is 'shrapnel', but this actually makes more sense in a portmanteau word sort of way: It's scraps that were hurled around as shrapnel. Scrapnel.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portmanteau

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Re:I was struck by lightning yesterday—and boy am I sore by nsxwolf on Thursday May 23, 2013 @05:01PM (#5759513)

And to be extra pedantic, the TV tube would have imploded.

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Re:I was struck by lightning yesterday—and boy am I sore by shaydoc on Thursday May 23, 2013 @05:01PM (#5759518)

Très bien, my shoddy typing, lol...

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Re:I was struck by lightning yesterday—and boy am I sore by gems on Thursday May 23, 2013 @08:45PM (#5760556)

Why bother?

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