Author Topic: KABOOM (Read 4367 times)

Zuma · « **on:** June 23, 2016, 04:57:51 pm »

I was lying in bed in the early hours.
I was counting the seconds between
the flashes and the rumbles.
My mind was trying to calculate the distances.

I was dozing off when a flash and KABOOM were
simultaneous.

I looked around the house and out at the neighbors houses
to see if anything was on fire. The storm was still raging
but it wasn't going to keep me up all night.
I went out to get the backhoe around mid morning and was
a little surprised to find a shallow trench from the corner of
the barn back to a cedar tree nearby. It's about 50 yds from
my bed to the tree. My ears are still ringing.

Zuma · « **Reply #1 on:** June 23, 2016, 05:04:28 pm »

some more.
I hung a small harrow on a limb of the cedar
last year. The energy used it as a path.

Knotty · « **Reply #2 on:** June 23, 2016, 05:16:08 pm »

Dang! If the tree had fallen you'd have an extra stave 😂

Zuma · « **Reply #3 on:** June 23, 2016, 05:21:46 pm »

distances

I am pretty sure the bolt traveled down the
corner post of the barn in the ground, Good
thing the hay and horses are gone.
Zuma

osage outlaw · « **Reply #4 on:** June 23, 2016, 05:32:31 pm »

That's crazy. I'm glad no damage was caused by it.

Ruddy Darter · « **Reply #5 on:** June 23, 2016, 05:34:29 pm »

Wow...and on a Thor's-day

Glad all o.k.

Ruddy.

mullet · « **Reply #6 on:** June 23, 2016, 08:51:12 pm »

Look for some melted sand to make a point from.

Zuma · « **Reply #7 on:** June 23, 2016, 09:20:20 pm »

Thanks for the good wishes guys.
It could have been way worse.
Doubt the tree will make it. $:-\$
No sand Eddie but the rain did uncover some metal.

Zuma

Hummingbird Point · « **Reply #8 on:** June 23, 2016, 09:48:21 pm »

Just to show how screwwed up I am: I couldn't help but notice those lovely cobbles that are eroding out from the corner of the building. That quartzite? The one in the center, lined up with the corner, kind of flattish, save that one for me, I'm gonna knap it.

The storm last Friday mostly missed my side of town, but just across the James looked like a war zone.

Keith

Zuma · « **Reply #9 on:** June 23, 2016, 10:46:04 pm »

LOL Keith that is what the lightning did not erosion

I'll sure save you the rock. I have tons here. nasty stuff.

Glad you dodged the bullet down there.
Zuma

stickbender · « **Reply #10 on:** June 24, 2016, 03:00:10 am »

Quote from: mullet on June 23, 2016, 08:51:12 pm

Look for some melted sand to make a point from.

Dang Eddie you took the words right off my computer! Yeah, there should have been enough heat to melt some sand! Yep, a nice lightening point, would be the ticket. Lot of mojo there.

wayne

bjrogg · « **Reply #11 on:** June 24, 2016, 07:11:11 am »

Electrifying post. Glad all but tree are well nothing to lose sleep over.

Tom W · « **Reply #12 on:** June 24, 2016, 07:24:46 am »

Glad to hear you were not fried! The tree will season well where it stands! Use some of that gold to buy a new harrow!

Hummingbird Point · « **Reply #13 on:** June 24, 2016, 09:39:46 am »

Quote from: Zuma on June 23, 2016, 10:46:04 pm

LOL Keith that is what the lightning did not erosion
I'll sure save you the rock. I have tons here. nasty stuff.
Glad you dodged the bullet down there.
Zuma

Ooooh, lightning heat treated quartzite! Sounds valuable, I'll have to find something good to trade for it.

Keith

Urufu_Shinjiro · « **Reply #14 on:** June 24, 2016, 10:18:55 am »

Any arrows made from those rocks will need lightning grooves, lol.

Primitive Archer