Lightning never strikes twice
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We all know the old saying, that lightning never hits the same place twice. After today, I might count my lucky stars and stay in the same building forever. You might guess what transpired; it was, for the most part, a typical day. We said we'd get the car out by noon, and one bug led to another, and then it was 6pm. By the time the car got out driving it was already starting to rain (outside our building; the rain in our building hadn't started yet), but it wasn't raining too bad. A few minutes into the run brought a veritable hurricane to bear on our little neck of the woods... hail, sheets of rain, the works. The few of us in mission ops went to peek out the door to investigate, when a gigantic bolt of lightning seared the building antenna- about 50 feet from our faces. I've never felt my insides squirm like that before, nor have I had all of my hairs stand on end at once- not even when we took our car to 35mph two years ago.
The shop lines are now reading 19 volts... I guess we're lucky that the car was outside and unplugged.
DISCLAIMER: the technical investigations of this team should in no way be perceived as anything but a dedicated and rigorous research effort. Please do not reproduce or otherwise make available any portion of the material found within unless permission is obtained from the author first.
We all know the old saying, that lightning never hits the same place twice. After today, I might count my lucky stars and stay in the same building forever. You might guess what transpired; it was, for the most part, a typical day. We said we'd get the car out by noon, and one bug led to another, and then it was 6pm. By the time the car got out driving it was already starting to rain (outside our building; the rain in our building hadn't started yet), but it wasn't raining too bad. A few minutes into the run brought a veritable hurricane to bear on our little neck of the woods... hail, sheets of rain, the works. The few of us in mission ops went to peek out the door to investigate, when a gigantic bolt of lightning seared the building antenna- about 50 feet from our faces. I've never felt my insides squirm like that before, nor have I had all of my hairs stand on end at once- not even when we took our car to 35mph two years ago.
The shop lines are now reading 19 volts... I guess we're lucky that the car was outside and unplugged.
posted by iceman at 6:04 PM
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