At 12:29 PM 3/29/01 -0800, Jackie Fenton wrote: >Terrifying during the storm, but exhilarating once it was over. I think >it's the adrenaline rush. Quite an experience that I don't recommend >anyone go looking for. 8-} I don't recall if I posted this before here (If I have I apologize). Last summer I went to NYC to see my cousins son perform with his high school choir at Carnegie Hall. They live in a little town way out on the Olympic peninsula (population < 100) and it was their first visit to New York City. Of course, they had to do the obligatory visit to the top of the Empire State building. On this particular night it was raining a bit when we got to the building and all the workers were telling us "there is zero visibility on top. You won't see anything" Despite all the warnings they still wanted to go up. When we got to the top, there were times when the visibility was zero but the storm was moving through fast so it would change from seeing nothing, to half the city lighting up, followed by nothing, all in a span of a minute. On the observation deck, we also happened to be right in the middle of a thunder and lightning storm. The thunder was deafening and there was lightning all around. Several hundred feet above the observation is that huge lightning rod. I watched as it was struck by lightning three times. *************************************************************************** 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 Thu Mar 29 2001 - 12:45:48 PST
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