Lightning Strikes!

Here in South Carolina we are getting a lot of little storms, and occasionally a really big one.  A couple of weeks ago there was a lightning strike right here in the Resort.  I was in the office at the time and the bang was so loud that we actually thought it hit right outside our window!  But it hit a tree inside the Resort, beside an RV site.  It's really interesting that the lightening strike ran down the tree in a spiral.  The mark where the bark was stripped off goes all the way around the other side.

It traveled down the tree to the ground where it caught on the rebar at the edge of the RV pad, traveled a few feet along the rebar, and then popped out a chunk of the pad.   

Fortunately nobody was hurt, but there were a lot of blown electronics in nearby RVs!

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