[TowerTalk] Lightning Protection Components

[Larry Bush]

At 03:41 PM 4/10/97 +0300, you wrote:
>A personal experience: my wife and myself were hit by a lightning
>strike, in a summer afternoon, when we took shelter under a tree from a
>sudden shower. This was happening in the middle of Bucharest, Capital
>city of Romania. We were surrounded by dozen of apartment buildings,
>10-story high, with plenty of antennas on the roofs. Why the lightning
>has stricken this particular tree, when all surrounding buildings were
>made of reinforced concrete and (presumably) well grounded, is a mystery
>for me. Maybe someone will come up with a theory.
>
>To describe this experience in detail is too long for this post. Now we
>are both alive and well. But we spent a whole week in a hospital, with
>no other treatment than pain killers. There are other connotations to
>this story, some comical and some very sad, which I refrain to tell
>here.
>
>So please folks, take all protective measures against the lightning. It
>CAN kill you !
>
>73 de Mike, YO3CTK
>
>
>	May all your lightning strike no closer than the hill beyond yon
>hill.
>
>	-73-
>
>	LB, W4RNL
>
>
>
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Umm... One of the first things I was taught in grade school was, 
"Never seek shelter under a tree from a thunder storm." 
Larry Bush, W5NCD
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