[TowerTalk] Lightning Hitting Chimney

[n4kg@juno.com]

Hi  Greg,

I have seen lightning hit the power transformer next door 
while completely ignoring my 7 towers ranging from 40 to
140 ft with  20 HF Yagis and wire antennas.

de  Tom  N4KG

On Tue, 17 Aug 1999 15:27:16 -0500 "Greg Gobleman" <k9zm@frontiernet.net>
writes:
> 
> I just had the most amazing conversation with my contractor.  I had 
> called
> him to check a roof leak next to a chimney in our bedroom.  He had 
> put the
> roof on last year and we had just had a series of storms with 6" 
> rain and
> high winds overnight a few days ago.  He could find nothing wrong 
> with the
> flashing, the chimney however has a bunch of bricks which appear to 
> have
> blown out in pieces and a new big crack that you could stick a 
> pencil in.
> The contractor says it was hit by lighting and the heavy rain and 
> high wind
> forced it in the crack to run out lower in the chimney, finally 
> ending up on
> our bedroom ceiling.
> 
> Now I'm no dummy, and I know that lighting will do what it wants to 
> do.  But
> I looked at him, then the chimney, then at my 60' Rohn 25G tower 40 
> feet
> away, with a 6el Telrex tri-bander, rotatable dipole for 40m and a 
> 2meter
> vertical on top, for about 75' in total height.  Then I looked at 
> the
> nearest anchor point about 8' away with 2 steel guys going to the 
> tower.
> Further noting in my own mind that I had found no damage to anything 
> related
> to the radio or any electronic device in our home, and asked, " 
> Don't you
> think it would have hit the tower first or instead of the chimney."  
> He said
> "Maybe it's grounded better."
> 
> I can't wait for the insurance adjuster to see this.  Has anybody 
> ever
> experienced anything like this?  Just curious.
> 
> 73
> Greg K9ZM
> 
> 
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