At 05:20 PM 8/20/2002 -0500, Rafael Mier Maza wrote: > On the other hand, paddling in a river with V shape mountains on the > sides makes it very very unlikely that a lightning will hit a paddler in > the water. Many trees will give the 45 degree shadow, as well as the > mountain itself. Speaking from physics point of view the cannon is > inside a V of equal potential (ground) and there is no attraction to the > lightning there. Way back when I read the newsgroup rec.boats.paddle there were several threads about seeing lightning strikes down in canyons. A google search, limited to the newsgroup rec.boats.paddle, brought up one such article. http://groups.google.com/groups?q=lightning+strike+canyon+group:rec.boats.pa ddle&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=31blfk%24kh5%40search01.news.aol.com&r num=1 *************************************************************************** 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 Aug 21 2002 - 07:32:57 PDT
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