Re: [Paddlewise] Anyone Been In A Thunderstorm?

From: John Fereira <jaf30_at_cornell.edu>
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 08:08:46 -0500
At 03:13 AM 3/26/01 -0800, Tom wrote:
>Has anyone been caught in a thunderstorm?  What did you do?
>  Were you still on the water when it hit?  Tom

Last summer I went to paddle with the Cornell Outdoor Club at their
weekly practice on the little reservoir on campus.  It was raining
a bit and the sky looked a bit ominous so there were about a dozen
people sitting under the porch waiting to see what the weather was
going to do before grabbing the kayaks and going out onto the reservoir.
The weather got worse and soon there was thunder and lightning all
around.  There were at least a couple of lightning strikes that hit
the water were we would have been paddling.  We waited it out and
when it looked like the brunt of the storm passed I went home to
paddle another day.

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