>>>The most significant difference between this and a typical strike was that the storm system was several kilometers away on the other side of a mountain - he was in bright sunshine with blue sky overhead. The path that lighning finds is not necessarily the shortest or most obvious one around. That certainly can happen... I was hiking to a cliff dwelling in Navajo National Monument in Arizona when there was a lightning strike a couple of hundred feet ahead of us. Clear blue sky and sunshine. Must've been a cloud on the other side of the hill we never saw... Joe P. *************************************************************************** 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 - 22:36:26 PDT
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