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Old Jun 18, 2003 | 01:58 PM
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What NOT to be doing when lightning hits close....

1. Be sitting on the throne deep in thought.<br> It makes various abdominal muscles do strange things.<br>2. Have your head buried up inside a piece of equipment tweeking a PITA circuit card.<br> It makes your head and hands leak red stuff that's hard to clean up.<br><br>stillshakingbutquitbleedingShortround out
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Old Jun 18, 2003 | 02:01 PM
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Old Jun 18, 2003 | 02:10 PM
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Re:What NOT to be doing when lightning hits close....

1. Be sitting on the throne deep in thought.<br>
<br>I would think that would be the IDEAL place to be sitting if you were spooked while in &quot;deep thought&quot;.
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Old Jun 18, 2003 | 02:11 PM
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Re:What NOT to be doing when lightning hits close....

Standing on the hi-dive board cleaning a pool next to a golf course?<br>(Think long aluminum pool in hand that is half submerged in water while standing on the tallest platform within several hundred feet in an electrical storm)<br><br> <br><br>Rich<br>
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Old Jun 18, 2003 | 02:14 PM
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Re:What NOT to be doing when lightning hits close....

Is that what happened to you??
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Old Jun 18, 2003 | 02:16 PM
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Re:What NOT to be doing when lightning hits close....

Plowing a field on a tractor with no cab under those tall metal powerlines <br>DM01
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Old Jun 18, 2003 | 02:29 PM
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Re:What NOT to be doing when lightning hits close....

Standing on top of those tall metal power poles holding up both hands and yelling at the top of your lungs for the lightning to come and get you...
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Old Jun 18, 2003 | 02:35 PM
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Re:What NOT to be doing when lightning hits close....

[quote author=Hoss link=board=10;threadid=16052;start=0#150704 date=1055964563]<br>Standing on top of those tall metal power poles holding up both hands and yelling at the top of your lungs for the lightning to come and get you... <br>[/quote] <br> That was you Hoss ??? <br>DM01
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Old Jun 18, 2003 | 02:46 PM
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Re:What NOT to be doing when lightning hits close....

That would be something Hoss would do!!!
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Old Jun 18, 2003 | 02:46 PM
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Re:What NOT to be doing when lightning hits close....

Yes. At one time I thought I was invincible. :
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Old Jun 18, 2003 | 02:48 PM
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Re:What NOT to be doing when lightning hits close....

[quote author=Hoss link=board=10;threadid=16052;start=0#150698 date=1055963662]<br>Is that what happened to you?? <br>[/quote]<br><br>Uh.... actually, yes.<br>I worked cleaning pools to help pay my way through college. On Mondays, the route took me around a golf course. I usually finished the day by cleaning the country clubs pool.<br>(it was the biggest and toughest to clean).<br>About half way through the cleaning, I found myself standing on the hi-dive, just in time for the mid afternoon thunderstorms.<br>Sorry to disappoint you Hoss, but I decided to just do chemical adjustment and filter clean that day.<br><br>Rich.
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Old Jun 18, 2003 | 02:57 PM
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Re:What NOT to be doing when lightning hits close....

Sleeping on the boat and being awakend by the sound of the thunderclap as it rolls over your boat. Out on that lake you know your head is the highest point!!!
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Old Jun 18, 2003 | 03:07 PM
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[quote author=DieselDaze link=board=10;threadid=16052;start=0#150713 date=1055965692]Sorry to disappoint you Hoss, but I decided to just do chemical adjustment and filter clean that day.<br><br>Rich.<br>[/quote]<br><br>You just don't have any sense of adventure do you?? :
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Old Jun 18, 2003 | 03:13 PM
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Re:What NOT to be doing when lightning hits close....

You just don't have any sense of adventure do you?? :
Yep, rational thought often ruins the best sense of adventure!

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Old Jun 18, 2003 | 03:19 PM
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Re:What NOT to be doing when lightning hits close....

[quote author=shortround link=board=10;threadid=16052;start=0#150686 date=1055962722]<br>1. Be sitting on the throne deep in thought.<br> It makes various abdominal muscles do strange things.<br>2. Have your head buried up inside a piece of equipment tweeking a PITA circuit card.<br> It makes your head and hands leak red stuff that's hard to clean up.<br><br>stillshakingbutquitbleedingShortround out<br>[/quote]<br><br>Shortround, were you multi-tasking?
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