Posted by Steve@Advance on May 15, 2018 at 08:17:54 from (24.182.105.179):
In Reply to: Lightening posted by notjustair on May 15, 2018 at 05:53:20:
My theory is lightening pretty much goes where it wants to.
Having traveled thousands of feet from the cloud to ground, or ground to cloud, the destination will not likely be diverted by a few inches of rubber, or the tallest tree, etc.
One time I just happened to be looking at the right place at the right time. There was a large backhoe parked in a muddy field at a construction site, the bucket on the ground, the mast in the air. Perfect lightening rod! Then it hit, but did not hit the mast, as far as I could tell. It did blow a steaming crater in the ground about 10 feet beside the tractor!
One can lessen their odds of being hit by using common sense, but still there is always a chance.
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