From: "Blaauw, Niels" <nblaauw_at_foxboro.com> Subject: [Paddlewise] Thunderstorm You said: Thunderstorm According to the manual my GPS is water- and shockproof. Indestructible, you would think. Since yesterday I know better: When lightning strikes at a few meters distance a GPS is as dead as a dodo. I found out about halfway across the Waal, one of the biggest and most crowded rivers in the Netherlands. I had seen some big ships coming my way when I left the shore and a ferry just starting to cross...<snip> ---- I'd leave the "Liar's" thunderstorm to guys like Rev Bob :-) Anyway, I've been in a few thunderstorms, and it isn't a laughing matter. There are some good indicators for when and where they can strike. I'd suggest a little extra meteorological reading rather that writing, including literature and videos on things like cloud identification, fronts, etc. A much as I love paddling out in our own open seas off Vancouver Island with the visceral thrill of exploding skies, I generally avoid the pleasure. Chicken Little, I guess. He who runs away, lives to paddle another day. Dougie Do (who knows all to well what it is like when the ominous Cumulonimbus hammer suddenly falls off the "anvil", or as Edgar Allan Poe wrote in "The Fall of the House of Usher," "when the clouds hung oppresively low in the heavens...") *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Mar 28 2001 - 01:29:42 PST
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