Lightening Q

Here's a good story that my old teacher John told me. When he was younger a friend of his that was a ranger asked him to come to the reserve to spend a week or so. Well, after he had been there a day or two his friend said that he had to go to the tower to monitor some things. The two of them had been there for a while when John noticed a rather large storm brewing not far off. When he asked his friend about it he calmly replied, " Oh yeah, it's storm season." " Don't you think we should be going? After all we are in a 60ft iron tower." John repliied immeadiatly after. "I really think you should stay.", his friend smirked. Well, the storm arrived in short time and began to assail the tower with lightining. What my old teacher wasn't prepared for was the fact that as he stood in the middle of the floor tha lighting was traveling down the walls of the tower! He said that you could see it forming bridges across the open windows. He explianed it by saying that lightning always takes the path of least resistance, which in this case is the wall, not a bunch of open air and two human bodies.

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Where the lion's skin will not reach, you must patch it out with the fox's.
 
I recently talked to an ex-forestry worker who did some fire watching. He saids that during a storm the towers normally glowed from all the electrical activity. Of course no one was permitted outside the tower during storms. The towers were well sheilded and they even had radio equipment inside. He got danger pay for this job though.

Cars are suppose to be very safe in a lighting storm. The charge resides on the outside.

Will
 
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