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06-09-2004, 08:07 PM
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shark bait
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: south of the north pole
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Jeez!
I just had the guanno scared out of me.... there was a lightning strike about 200ft from my apartment  Bright flashing streak and a thunderous boom!
pardon me while i run for cover..... 
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Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. -- Dale Carnegie
Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
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06-10-2004, 02:17 PM
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Wants a Howitzer
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Maine
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i'd be scared of lightening too if i had a nail in my head :lol
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30 gallon (long)
one 7" Toadfish named Todd (Batrachomoeus trispinosus)- Tuxedo urchin eater
Assorted mushrooms, zoanthids, ricordea, leathers, a candy and brains...
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06-10-2004, 02:54 PM
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ROOTS...ROCKS...REGGAE
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: south suburbs of Chicago,Il USA
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I know what you mean Southern. I've had lighting strike within 100 yards 3 times in my life. Two separate times I was working within 100' of two different churches when it hit, LOL. You think it's a sign? Another time I was driving past a large billboard and lighting hit the top corner of it.
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06-10-2004, 03:14 PM
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Birthday tracker
Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: Spartanburg, SC USA
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Hehehe what you said, Heather 
Oh yeh, years ago I saw ball lightning come bouncing in our house. Scared the bejeezus outa me. Nearly straightened my hair
Umm...gotta ask, SR...why were you still on the puter with all that electricity bouncing?
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06-10-2004, 03:39 PM
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shark bait
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: south of the north pole
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rwd, you know your really close to a lighting bolt when you notice the the color of the lighting is blue/gold instead of white. what's really neato is when it hits a power transformer, then you see that strange glow of red/blue/green light up the dark sky just as you lose power! that's awesome!
icebear, i wonder how this guy feels with 6 nails in his head!
cath, i love living dangerously!
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Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. -- Dale Carnegie
Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
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06-10-2004, 03:50 PM
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ROOTS...ROCKS...REGGAE
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: south suburbs of Chicago,Il USA
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Quote:
Originally posted by SouthernReefer
rwd, you know your really close to a lighting bolt when you notice the the color of the lighting is blue/gold instead of white.
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And there is a strange smell just before the strike. To me it smells like chlorine. Probably the ions in the air.
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06-10-2004, 11:05 PM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Jan 1999
Location: Southern Oregon, Way West of Dimples ;)
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That be ozone Bob
That pic looks a lot like my leg just below the knee 
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The heroism of the losing side rarely gets remembered
but we were all husbands and fathers, sons and bros
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06-10-2004, 11:28 PM
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Birthday tracker
Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: Spartanburg, SC USA
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SR- are you telling us you're a pin head? 
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