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Last night was a little exciting. Got to see a lightening show that reminded me of how we need to be on our toes in inclement weather (for all professions really).
We had the Mother of all rain, lightening, thunder storms last night. Around 9PM it really hit. I saw lightening bolts that seemed to last 2 to 3 seconds. Lightening streaks were everywhere at the same time. Now, common sense tells me "they ain't no commies comin' over the fence in this weather." But, I'm one of those that does the job no matter what. Altho I was having resrvations about going on a patrol in this 'stuff'. Since lightening had taken out the electricity (and for some reason the multi-million dollar automatic generator set up did not start, well it did cost a bunch of tax payor money.) I decided to sit on the covered porch and watch the light show.
One of my assignments is a 30 acre site enclosed with an 8 foot chain link fence about a mile from the Security Office. Lightening struck somewhere in or near that site. I watched a yellow/blue/green colored fireball go almost completely the full length around the fence and then out into the range where it disappeared. I mean to tell you it lit up the place like you had flood lights on it. And the crack/bang like to have knocked me outta my chair.
There were several stikes in the immediate area during the storm. One strike was a large pine tree at the edge of the range. It looked like someone took a big knife and carved a spiral groove from top to bottom of the tree. And about 20 feet of top was blown off of it. The rain put out the fire that followed the strike.
I spent the rest of the storm event "inside" the well grounded Security structure. I figured the place will still be there "after" the storm so I'll go back to work then.
We had the Mother of all rain, lightening, thunder storms last night. Around 9PM it really hit. I saw lightening bolts that seemed to last 2 to 3 seconds. Lightening streaks were everywhere at the same time. Now, common sense tells me "they ain't no commies comin' over the fence in this weather." But, I'm one of those that does the job no matter what. Altho I was having resrvations about going on a patrol in this 'stuff'. Since lightening had taken out the electricity (and for some reason the multi-million dollar automatic generator set up did not start, well it did cost a bunch of tax payor money.) I decided to sit on the covered porch and watch the light show.
One of my assignments is a 30 acre site enclosed with an 8 foot chain link fence about a mile from the Security Office. Lightening struck somewhere in or near that site. I watched a yellow/blue/green colored fireball go almost completely the full length around the fence and then out into the range where it disappeared. I mean to tell you it lit up the place like you had flood lights on it. And the crack/bang like to have knocked me outta my chair.
There were several stikes in the immediate area during the storm. One strike was a large pine tree at the edge of the range. It looked like someone took a big knife and carved a spiral groove from top to bottom of the tree. And about 20 feet of top was blown off of it. The rain put out the fire that followed the strike.
I spent the rest of the storm event "inside" the well grounded Security structure. I figured the place will still be there "after" the storm so I'll go back to work then.
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