[Paddlewise] lightning !!

I really don't know about where to go while on a boat...But..someone
mentioned about the fresh smell after a strike...
        While studying soil sciences a while back [no, not so long ago] I
seem to remember that 1 Lightning strike brings down the equivalent to
1700lbs of Nitrogen [N] to a area about the size of 1 acres surrounding the
ground where the strike occured [in metric= 770 kgs/ 4000 sq meters] this
would explain the fresh smell...About the same as the rain in the forest
and the fresh smell...

        A  friend of mine had a strike in the front yard and had the
greenest lawn all summer and the kid was ear to ear with all the coin he
made from mowing the lawn all the time [again sorta like when a client of
mine used kgs instead of lbs for a high N lawn feed, had to mow the lawn
weekly...]


So what about me in my klepper with the aluminum mast up, nad the gaff
set-up even higher ???


Yours naturally

sylvio  lamarche
Wycliffe organic gardens
& Exotic locales all over the globe



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