- Joined
- Aug 16, 2001
- Location
- INDY
First let me state that you should not use a cordless or cell phone in a lightning storm the radio transmissions actually attract the lightning. I learned this from my forrest fire fighting days, the forrest service safety manual says something like not using the radio if lightning is near. Its also in italic wich means they made the rule because someone died doing it. I have seen lightning strike a outside propane tank, travel into the house along the tubing fly off at the elbow before the stove and hit the ceramic tile floor leaving a palm sized burn mark that never came off. While at work one day we saw lightning strike the house next door twice within a minute. It blew the chimney clean off the house and fried every appliance inside. Also lightning killed a friend of mine when it was'nt even raining. So I unplug everything of value at the first sign of lightning. Call me paranoid but at least I know my rig won't get fried. Lightning can and will go werever it wants.