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[hboli4]

'Closest' I've experienced was sitting in a tent at about 5950m on Aconcagua when a storm moved in quickly. Talk about the smell in the air and the charge. Had a couple of Italian climbers not far away screaming their heads off, first time they experienced lightning.

 

Needless to say - no sleep that night and had to dig out of the tent in the morning after a significant amount of snow fell.

[Guest]

Howick Preperatory School in KZN has a lightning detection system they employ for safe sports.

 

You should speak to them if you're truly interested in something that works. They have 40km sensitivity on their system. Works perfect from my experiences driving there for sport only to have the siren wailing and having to head home again

I can confirm it works well.

[Bateleur1]

'Closest' I've experienced was sitting in a tent at about 5950m on Aconcagua when a storm moved in quickly. Talk about the smell in the air and the charge. Had a couple of Italian climbers not far away screaming their heads off, first time they experienced lightning.

 

Needless to say - no sleep that night and had to dig out of the tent in the morning after a significant amount of snow fell.

 

Closest I have experienced was about 25-30 meters.  Ligthing struck a palm tree in our garden at 3.00 am in the morning oh and then the lapa burnt down.  Still had to do a system demo to the defence force and my eyes could not focus properly on anything as there was still ash in my eyes.

[Kranswurm]

That is a cool website.

 

Germans in general does not seem to be bothered about lightning too much.  Our first school sporting event with our daughters had a thunderstorm the afternoon.  As the lighting came up the people were not phased about it moving over the sports fields without worrying.  I just told my daughters to stay under the pavilion regardless what the teachers say.

 

One guy who sometimes commuted with me here in Germany went to the Drakensberg for his honeymoon.  He spent most of it in hospital as he got hit by lightning in the Berg.

The Berg is notorious for serious storms in summer.As a rule we generally did not do the high berg in summer and rather kept to the kloofs like Didema Gorge.Winter is the time for the high berg

[geomark]

Howick Preperatory School in KZN has a lightning detection system they employ for safe sports.

 

You should speak to them if you're truly interested in something that works. They have 40km sensitivity on their system. Works perfect from my experiences driving there for sport only to have the siren wailing and having to head home again

Use these in drilling and construction and work well, sites get shut as storms approach.

 

https://skyscanusa.com/shop/

[geomark]

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[Slowbee]

 

All the talk of lighting reminds me of this image.

 

Cropped off  his website here:

https://mitchellkrog.com/biggest-lightning-strikes-ever-caught-on-camera/

 

[The Ouzo]

Closest I have experienced was about 25-30 meters. Ligthing struck a palm tree in our garden at 3.00 am in the morning oh and then the lapa burnt down. Still had to do a system demo to the defence force and my eyes could not focus properly on anything as there was still ash in my eyes.

We have one of those red and white telkom communication towers right behind our house, it is often hit.

But normally I’m inside so no big deal, but the one day I was outside, when you hear the bang and see the flash at exactly the same time it makes you jump, like really high.

[Albatross]

You know the lightning strike was  close to home when your earth leakage trips (apart from the instantaneous flash bang)

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[100Tours]

You know the lightning strike was  close to home when your earth leakage trips (apart from the instantaneous flash bang)

 

I grew up in a house on one of the quartzite ridges around Joburg. A close strike was when it blew up the Telkom phone.

[geomark]

I grew up in a house on one of the quartzite ridges around Joburg. A close strike was when it blew up the Telkom phone.

My last house on the Constantia Kloof ridge we had 3 modems on rotation, got fried on a very regular basis 

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