11-11-2011, 11:00 AM
That's very interesting and somewhat alarming, Tom. I have had a tendency to take the lightning storms not so seriously. I'm thinking I've been wrong about that.
I was raised by a Mom who was super adamant about lightning storm behavior, as she had had a house struck by lightning, and had lived in high lightning areas. But as it never happened to us, I stopped worrying.
The biggest lightning storms I've ever seen regularly were in the New Mexico Rockies. Huge storms every afternoon in the summer. Much bigger than here. Another reason I haven't feared these smallish storms.
I remember coming to the island on vacation something like two days after the big storm of 2000. Driving the washed out road to Volcano (driving the detour). Our B&B hosts had a friend in Hilo who saw his neighbor's house float right off the pier blocks, dragging the electric wires behind it.
"And I'm sure it wouldn't interest anybody, outside of a small circle of friends ~ Phil Ochs
I was raised by a Mom who was super adamant about lightning storm behavior, as she had had a house struck by lightning, and had lived in high lightning areas. But as it never happened to us, I stopped worrying.
The biggest lightning storms I've ever seen regularly were in the New Mexico Rockies. Huge storms every afternoon in the summer. Much bigger than here. Another reason I haven't feared these smallish storms.
I remember coming to the island on vacation something like two days after the big storm of 2000. Driving the washed out road to Volcano (driving the detour). Our B&B hosts had a friend in Hilo who saw his neighbor's house float right off the pier blocks, dragging the electric wires behind it.
"And I'm sure it wouldn't interest anybody, outside of a small circle of friends ~ Phil Ochs