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This thread is 100% not a joke. We drove straight through to Manchester from Chicago. It stormed the whole way down and we picked up the RV at 8am in North Nashville. At 9am we went to a Walmart and stocked up on all our goods and went outside. Then all hell broke lose as we were loading the RV.
I really didnt think much about the lightning I was more focused on the tornado reports being from Iowa and had a tornado tear down our street in Iowa City 4 years ago. We got everything loaded and my buddy couldn't get an outside storage door locked so I said I would get it. I walked out with my buddy and just as I put the key in the door I got shot back about 5 feet. First came the massive shock and knock back then came the light and then the noise. There was a crazy delay between the hit and light, enough so that I had enough time to say, " I got struck!" My friends, jaw was on the ground and I got up and ran inside and yelled to my friends about what happened. At first they didnt believe me but my friend confirmed the story.
My wife is a doctor and I called her, my left hand was numb for an hour. She at first thought I was kidding and I still dont think she believes me. I ran into a guy with a PHD in Electrical enginering Thursday at Tobaco late night and basically he told me I was the luckiest Muther Fvcker at the roo. A split second earlier and I should be dead. Basically my thumb touching the key released the energy back into our RV saving my life. If I was touching the RV with my other hand I would be dead. The guy with the PHD told me I just got a second life. He was more excited about the lighting then I was. Pretty crazy and I had a blast at the roo. Be careful when the weather turns to crap, I know I will in the future.
Wow, that's nuts...I'm glad you're okay. We got in the car Thursday night when the lightning started. I think people don't take it seriously enough and I didn't want to be in a metal tent during that storm.
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Anyone else notice they kept putting people into the Ferris wheel Thursday night despite the rain and lightening? I thought was pretty much just tempting fate...
"We're no longer called Sonic Death Monkey. We're on the verge of becoming Kathleen Turner Overdrive, but just for tonight, we are Barry Jive and his Uptown Five. "
thanks for the nice messages. I wasnt missing the roo for anything. I also noticed they were putting people on the farris wheel. I seemed to really notice the weather after I got hit. weird.
Wow, that's nuts...I'm glad you're okay. We got in the car Thursday night when the lightning started. I think people don't take it seriously enough and I didn't want to be in a metal tent during that storm.
It seems counter intuitive, but being inside a metal frame is very safe with respect to lightning.
Post by StreetBum87 on Jun 17, 2009 10:20:18 GMT -5
lightning tried to stop me, and i said "fuck you lightning i got bonnaroo to goto." thank god your safe and well. and congrats on becoming a bad ass statistic www.strikealert.com/LightningFacts.htm
Anyone else notice they kept putting people into the Ferris wheel Thursday night despite the rain and lightening? I thought was pretty much just tempting fate...
I was really surprised at how they handled the storm Thursday night. In addition to still letting kids on the ferris wheel, I was struck by the dozens of people standing beneath any tree they could. On a farm like that, lone trees are nothing but lightning rods. All it woulda taken was one Safety guy on a golf cart to drive around spooking folks off. I didnt even hear any stage announcements giving any kind of advice or warnings.
Having said all that, had anyone got struck standing beneath a tree or riding the ferris wheel, they'd only have themselves to blame.
Wow! you have amazing luck to have survived that. I was freaking out about the lightening Thursday night. We were sitting in metal chairs and when the lightening started we decided to hit up cmap for a while so things could calm down a bit. the chairs were backpacks chairs and I kept thinking lightening would hit it but my husband kept saying the odds were low since there were so many other things it could hit. I'll have to tell him your story!
. Seriously though glad you are ok.
