Mark wrote; (SNIP) >to start off, are you safer on the river, since, by default, you are at >the lowest point possible?? we've watched some pretty hairy storms move >in, and have almost always managed to be at our cars by the time the >lightening was striking, and there has always been [at least with larger >groups] a mixed consensus [sp?] as to get out and hide near a tree [which >i disagree with] or keep trucking and head for the cars, which i support, >telling everyone to hug the banks... > My understanding is that some trees (in particular high pines) seem to attract lightning more than others. The zone of protection that I have been told about is to imagine a forty-five degree cone around the highest object. Not sure if this is infallible just better than nothing. Cheers, John Winters Redwing Designs Specialists in Human Powered Watercraft http://home.ican.net/~735769/ *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Fri May 08 1998 - 04:37:16 PDT
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