Lightning nearly strikes boat

[CAMAN]

Lightning nearly strikes boat; caught on camera.

http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/excursion...y-strikes-boat/

[Finns]

Scary!

[Stick in Mud]

Yeah, pretty nuts. I've had the line lift off the water before (I was in a canoe, of all things ) , but I've never seen a strike like that while on the water.

[paceman]

Holy cow that is Way to close!

[Deitz Dittrich]

pucker factor level 10!!!!

[Pat K]

Never seen a lightning strike on the water, but once we had the lines arcing up between the rod tip & the water. When we reeled in to leave you could see static electric sparks by the rod tip!

[BartmanMN]

So lucky. Can't explain why it would hit there and not the higher point, like his boat. Wow.

[NoWiser]

Scary for sure. I've had a couple times where my rod tip was snapping and buzzing, and the line would lift off of the water. That's way too close. I hit the shore at the first sign of lightening now. Not worth taking a chance. A few weeks ago I was camped on a ridge elk hunting in Wyoming when an electrical storm came through. Two bolts were so close that you lost your breath when they hit, kind of a feeling like when you get the wind knocked out of you. I did not like that at all. Lightening scares the bejeezes out of me!

[merkman]

Can't explain why it would hit there and not the higher point, like his boat.

Because it took the path of least resistance.

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[fishnowworknever]

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/06/0623_040623_lightningfacts_2.html

and this youtube vid is very awesome

[Ufatz]

I suppose you guys already know this, but the worst thing to have in your hand in an electrical storm is a graphite rod. Or graphite golf club. I have a well know pal who was knocked right up in the air and came down twenty feet away, half conscious, while walking across a meadow with a graphite fly rod in his hand. This was way back when graphite was new as a rod material.

And something else you may or may not know: electricity from a storm can come from farther away than you think to KNOCK you on your asterisk and melt your boots! LOL

[LMITOUT]

I've had a couple times where my rod tip was snapping and buzzing,

A buddy and I had the same thing happen when fishing on Sakakawea years ago. Before heading out we knew a storm was coming from the west and it was pretty dark on the horizon, but we were in full sunlight without a storm cloud around and figured we had time to get some fishing in before it got to our end of the lake. We got to our spot and while he was getting some things in order in the front of the boat I grabbed the rods that were on the floor and that's when I heard something. I angled the tips down not believing what I had heard and then lifted them slowly back up and they started buzzing again. By that time he had turned around because he had heard it too and we both looked at each other and agreed it was time to head back to shore. Definitely a little spooky.

[bobbymalone]

Back in high school, I was out playing golf with some friends and a storm was developing off to the west. Looked like we had an hour or so before we would need to stop. A couple holes later we drive the carts up a hill to the next tee box. I was sporting about shoulder length hair back then, and as we come up the hill my hair starts lifting. Within a few minutes, my hair was sticking straight out from my head.

We got the heck out of there.