I saw lightning for the first time!!

[kuulani]

holy cow!! i saw an actual lightning rod come down from the sky!! that never happens in hawaii!! ooh! it's pretty!!

i know all of you are thinking, "whoopee, big deal" ... but in hawaii, lightning is just a flash of light, not actual bolts coming down!

 

[Squiggy]

Lightening is cool....ain't it?

 

[kuulani]

very!! i'm sitting here waiting for another bolt!!

and the thunder is very cool too!! very loud & scary!!

 

[kuulani]

 

[HeXp£Øi±]

Looks a lot different than on tv huh?

 

[kuulani]

ooh another one!!

 

[nalani]

it's soooo very cool!!! I just knew the clouds were weird this morning ..

unc - could you hear the thunder in the background of the message I left you?

 

[A.B.Normal]

NOTE:

Being on the computer during a Lightning storm is NOT a good thing,even if it is a work comp.

 

[nalani]

*is on an iBook with a 4 hour battery*

 

[fury]

Aren't those things made out of Titanium? That's practically acting like a lightning rod.

 

[kuulani]

me too

 

[nalani]

naw - PowerBooks are made of Titanium .. iBooks are made of .. umm.. i's LOL

 

[Professur]

holy cow!! i saw an actual lightning rod come down from the sky!! that never happens in hawaii!! ooh! it's pretty!!

A lightning rod is a metal pole, usually with a platinum tip used to direct lightning strikes and protect tall buildings. If you saw one come down from the sky, someone's having aa really bad day.

 

[Gonz]

Lightning is too cool. Go to Phoenix during late June-Late August & go to the desert, overlooking the city & you're likely to see quite a show. Stay in your car though. Beautiful & extremely dangerous.

 

[Justintime]

it hardly gets like tv and pictures here, seen it a few times, very cool

 

[nalani]

lookit what it brought!

 

[Q]

I live in the lightning capital of the US. Lightning shows are cool...but scary. Lightning can travel 5 or 10 miles sideways in a matter of seconds.

 

[Dave]

when i was 5 or 6, a lightning bolt hit in our backyard while we were sitting on the porch watching the storm. couldn't of been more than 10' away. left a brown circle in the grass. i wouldn't step on that spot for months fearing that i would get electrocuted.
i still love to watch lightning storms.

 

[Squiggy]

I once watched a bolt literally split a great big maple tree once. It seemed to last for about 30 seconds...Then there was just two burning halves of a tree...

 

[Gonz]

My mom had an uncle, standing by the kitchen door (circa 1935 Mississippi farmfields) when a bolt hit a tree 250 yards away. He was holding onto a nail in the door frame. It burned his flesh & left a scar for life. The tree exploded.