Wow. Was actually on the way to meet my friends to go fishing tonight and the weather took a drastic turn. Decided not to go, didn't want to get caught in a lighting/thunderstorm. I think it was the right choice.

 

 

 

 

 

 

LOL, I don't think that's really a lightning strike. To me it looks more like a demolition video breaking up a logjam or something, not lightning.

Got me too.

A-Jay

WOW!!

I've seen lighting strike on the water before, and see the blue streak across the lake, but nothing like that.

Not lightning,

http://www.snopes.com/lightning-striking-a-river/

47 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

Got me too.

A-Jay

 

 

 

Dang. lol. FB got me!

However phony this is, if you cannot get your line to enter the water as usual, and your rod buzzes when you point it up, get the hell off the water.  You're about to be struck by real lightning.

That "lightning" is actually a plastic tube referred to as "nonel" which is short for "non-electric".  It is a very small diameter tube packed with a high explosive, usually HMX, and it's used as a long, fast fuse for detonating a high explosive package.  Sometimes it's not feasible to run an electric cord to the explosive to cause ignition.  Such as when you are detonating something under water.  Nonel is used instead and ignition is accomplished by a sparking device which causes the HMX to run the distance of the tube and set off the final explosive package.  At night it makes for a really cool sight as the explosion speeds through the tube.  We used to use it to set up impromptu shows.  We would make a clothesline of it about ten feet off the ground and and run t-lines straight down into 5 gallon buckets of gasoline.  When ignited you can see it run across the ground, up into clothesline section, down all the t-sections nearly simultaneously and the ignite the gas buckets into huge fireballs.  Very mature and smart we were...LOL

i saw it and knew it wasn't real lightning.  Saw that actually happen right in front of me about 16-17 years ago in Orangeburg, SC.  Working construction for my uncle and he did underground boring for fiber optic cables.  We had about 500 feet of the metal rods pushed out with the drilling head on, pulling cables where a bridge had washed away.  the 500 feet of rods started on one end, went under the river and came out on the other side with the drilling head exposed.  we were working feverishly to get the auger head off ASAP before the storm because my uncle feared someone might steal it and they were hard to get and crazy expensive.  we had barely got the head off and in the truck when about 25 feet away the lightning hit the rod on our side of the river and did the craziest-freakiest dance across the river, following the rods underground, and shot vertically out of the ground on the other side of the river and sounded like a cannon shot.  thank god none of us were hurt, but it was as close as i'll ever want to be to that happening.

needless to say, our ride from job site to the hotel that afternoon was total silence.....