Re: [Paddlewise] Thunderstorm

From: Steve Cramer <cramer_at_coe.uga.edu>
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 17:27:31 -0500
JSpinner_at_aol.com wrote:
> 
> The big problem with this is that in so much of the area the storms just come
> up in localized area. There is a chance of thunder storms just about every
> day, it seems. .....
>     Well, Joan didn't plan well enough. I didn't take into account that the
> river we were on is in a deep gully so we couldn't see the clouds move in.
> The thunder, by the time it reached us, was just about on top of us. 

Local belief is that if the river is that far down, it's unlikely that
the lightning is going to come down there anyway. That's how we operate
on the Nantahala (Cherokee for "River of the Noonday [only] Sun"*)
anyway.

*--Or it may be Cherokee for "River of the Out-of-control Rafts. One or
the other.

-- 
Steve
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