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| I've never bought into the idea that tires would insulate against the several million volts found in lightning. I mean, if lightning can travel for miles through air, which is non-conductive, what would keep it from jumping the 12 inches from the bottom of a vehicle to the ground?
Several years ago, when I was selling seed, I was visiting with a customer and his son when a bad lightning storm came up. His son and I were standing near a wall in his shop talking. The farmer advised us that we might want to move away from that wall, as that was where the power wires came into the shop. We did, and less than a minute later, lightning hit shop and came through the electrical box. It made a blinding flash and sounded like a shotgun blast. It blew the door open on the breaker box, blew several breakers out across the floor, blew apart a 220 plug that his welder was plugged in to, and fried the welder. That fellow probably save our lives by telling us to move. | |
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Lightening strikes?
