its not the rain, its the...

[rocker59]

   it's the metal body that conducts the electricity around you that protects .

unless it doesn't...

lots of people in cars are injured and killed by lightning each year.

[Guzzistajohn]

We had a few thunderclapas last week.  Unusual here.  Nobody knows what to do.  They were keelhauling their schnauzers, battening their binnacles, stuffing socks in their ear holes, and sacrificing virginity without mercy.  After several hours of that they looked up and realized the weather had changed late in the morning.  As it was now well past dinnertime, they reluctantly stopped all the rituals.  Just as well.  They were about run out of virginity.

  :thumb:funny RK!

[Guzzistajohn]

When I was in the wheelchair business we had a 30 y/o guy that got hit in his driveway shooting baskets when he was 9. We called him sparky. It blew the soles of his feet off right through his tennis shoes, his mother saved them. Poor guy was totally gorped for life.

[cloudbase]

The view of a lightning storm from the bridge of a ship at night is also a thing of beauty.

[oldbike54]

unless it doesn't...

lots of people in cars are injured and killed by lightning each year.

 True , although I am guessing it is safer to be in a car with the doors closed than to be standing outside . Lightening makes me nervous , one of my high school base ball coaches was killed by a lightening strike as he was pulling the second base bag out as the rest of us ran for cover . Apparently the metal spike that secures the bag acted as a conductor . The whole incident was weird , the storm was still a mile away . Lightening can travel diagonally for great distances .

 Dusty