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We had a really bad storm last Thursday night lots of lighting, which I hate we lost a super nice heifer just a couple of years ago to a lighting strike. I guess it could have been worse but of course it was one of the best heifers in the pen. When Ronnie got to the farm on Friday morning the charger was blown up so he knew we had been hit. He checked all the cattle all good so big sigh of relief. Today he was out checking some of the fence lines and here is what he found.



The first picture shows a pine tree that was hit, we figure the lighting hit the tree the trench is where it traveled over to the fence.



This is where it hit the fence there use to be a post at this location.



It then traveled to another post



and then another needless to say it had to be a very powerful hit. No wonder the charger was blown to heck and back.

gizmom
 
True Grit Farms":27c1nvk8 said:
What scares me the most is that we're not supposed to have lighting strikes this time of year.
But at least everyone is safe.
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You're exactly right. Odd. Scary. And powerful. Wow.
 
I don't understand how that can happen? Very strange to me. I always thought lightning was trying to get to the ground. If so, once to the ground, how did it travel across it, disintegrate one post and end up going to two more then blowing the TOPS out? Freaky.
 
I have never seen anything like it, but it is pretty easy to see the path it took. I guess it could have jumped from the fence to the tree but either was your right scary and very freaky. As you can see the ground is saturated so that probably played a big part, I just haven't ever seen it put a trench into the ground like that.

Gizmom
 
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WalnutCrest":1dhcos0p said:
The lightening split, hit the tree and the post and made a triangle across the ground?

Pretty amazing stuff! Thanks for sharing the photos...
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Maybe. Wouldn't have wanted to be close enough to confirm this theory :hide: :lol2:
 
I have never seen it leave a trench before. But have seen it bounce along the ground and light up every wire on a fence. Usually if it hits a fence directly you can tell where it hit it. I've had to replace a section as it will literally burn the wire sometimes into.
 
I remember a few years back a story about a brother and sister up on the prairie in Canada. They were working on a fence and lightning struck the fence at least a mile away. Killed the brother and put the sister in the hospital.
 
Every year or so we lose a tree to lightening. Last year it was a big white oak just below the house. It was 30 inch or so DBH that the cows shaded up under. One day I happened to notice that all of a sudden the top turned brown. When I checked it out I saw one small limb that had been struck and the bark on the back side of the tree was split from there clear to the ground. The year before we lost a 40 plus foot hickory, the year before that we lost one side of a huge old sycamore. The sycamore below the fork was about 5 foot in diameter. One side died then later the next year the other side died.
Had some folks from south of us that bought all of our 1A Red Angus. There was one cow that I hated to sell. She was the first heifer born on this farm and had a gorgeous heifer calf at side. A couple of months after we sold them I checked with the lady to see how the cows were doing. She said she had been afraid to call me. Turned out that the day after they take them home, the cow that I didn;t want to sell got struck by lightening and bar-b-qued. Heifer has turned out to be a great young cow for them.
 
Wow. That is amazing. Seems the lightening had to travel underground to cause the trench and not burn the grass. :?:

Dun, with that much activity... I think you need to invest in a flux capacitor and do some traveling. :hide:
 
Supa Dexta":3qtvmgg5 said:
talltimber":3qtvmgg5 said:
lightning
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There we go, you and Dave are on the right track.. ha
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Question - Is it pronounced "light-ing" down south? Yanks pronounce it "light-ning". Just curious.
 
Oh mercy me I had not noticed that I had spelled lightening wrong till I saw the post. It isn’t my fault bad spelling is a heritable trait, I found this out when my son told this to his 6th grade teacher. He told her that it wasn’t his fault that he couldn’t spell that it was due to genetics his mother couldn’t spell either. I guess he was right! As to how we pronounce Lightening in the south I actually say light-nen.

gizmom
 

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