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Offline slipknot

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Re: Lightning Strike at Work
« Reply #15 on: June 20, 2008, 01:11:03 PM »
Quote from: deSelys on June 20, 2008, 09:21:35 AM
God is sending a message to SUV owners...

Use parking garages?
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Re: Lightning Strike at Work
« Reply #16 on: June 20, 2008, 01:55:25 PM »
I wonder if he had a "jerry can" of gas on the jeep that might have been venting.
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Re: Lightning Strike at Work
« Reply #17 on: June 20, 2008, 03:19:54 PM »
Quote from: Ripsnort on June 20, 2008, 10:47:04 AM
Safest place to be in a lightning storm is in a car:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUUOdO6eEZA

Proof that the Van-God's hates mini-vans. 
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Re: Lightning Strike at Work
« Reply #18 on: June 20, 2008, 03:25:44 PM »
 Wow, I guess that thing about staying in your car in a thunderstorm was a load of poo.
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Re: Lightning Strike at Work
« Reply #19 on: June 20, 2008, 04:33:17 PM »
It's ok everybody!  That's not a real jeep!

It's a 4 door cherokee with a leather soft top.
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Re: Lightning Strike at Work
« Reply #20 on: June 20, 2008, 04:47:33 PM »
Well, I guess I'll have to rethink my Lightning Avoidance Procedure of, at the first sign of a thunderstorm, rushing out of my house and driving around in my car.   :confused:
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Re: Lightning Strike at Work
« Reply #21 on: June 20, 2008, 04:54:51 PM »
Quote from: lasersailor184 on June 20, 2008, 04:33:17 PM
It's ok everybody!  That's not a real jeep!

It's a 4 door cherokee with a leather soft top.

Uhmm, It's Wrangler Unlimited...
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Re: Lightning Strike at Work
« Reply #22 on: June 20, 2008, 05:09:02 PM »
Quote from: 2bighorn on June 20, 2008, 04:54:51 PM
Uhmm, It's Wrangler Unlimited...

Count the doors. 



If it has more than 2 and a back gate, it's not a jeep.
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Re: Lightning Strike at Work
« Reply #23 on: June 20, 2008, 05:22:09 PM »
Heh thats starting to look like a classic Land Rover :)
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Re: Lightning Strike at Work
« Reply #24 on: June 20, 2008, 07:19:03 PM »
Was that off of the 114?
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Re: Lightning Strike at Work
« Reply #25 on: June 20, 2008, 07:36:10 PM »
Quote from: lasersailor184 on June 20, 2008, 05:09:02 PM
Count the doors. 

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If it has more than 2 and a back gate, it's not a jeep.

But it's still a Wrangler Unlimited...it says so on the front quarter panel.
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Re: Lightning Strike at Work
« Reply #26 on: June 20, 2008, 09:12:49 PM »
God hates Jeeps....


And yes, its a Jeep thing, and yes, He understands....

PWN

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Re: Lightning Strike at Work
« Reply #27 on: June 20, 2008, 09:24:02 PM »
The Jeep belonged to the Antichrist or the devil??? :t
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Re: Lightning Strike at Work
« Reply #28 on: June 20, 2008, 09:45:06 PM »
Quote from: M36 on June 20, 2008, 09:24:02 PM
The Jeep belonged to the Antichrist or the devil??? :t

Those are the same person
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Re: Lightning Strike at Work
« Reply #29 on: June 20, 2008, 10:55:22 PM »
Quote from: Cthulhu on June 20, 2008, 08:23:38 AM
This happened yesterday here in Dallas. So much for being safe in your car.





The reason a car is safe is it creates a metal cage effect. If the car is not metal all the way around (jeep), it won't make the cage effect. I used to work real high up is a metal office ( metal all the way around) as a dispatcher. In 20 years, lighting hit the office 4 times ( never with me in it) and did no damage.

Edit: Here's a link to the cage effect:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_cage

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When lightning strikes an aircraft or a car the electric currents induced on it are forced to travel on the outer skin of the vehicle's body. If you were in a car, and the car were struck by lightning, it is not in fact the rubber tires that would save your life. If the lightning can jump from the ground to the sky, then it can jump from the ground to your car. What actually happens, is by being enclosed by the car's cabin, the lightning travels around you, through the conductive frame of the car. This is because the car forms a Faraday Cage.
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