[TowerTalk] Lightening

[Steve Maki]

I've never seen one nor heard of one, other than thru the rumor mill. 
Doesn't prove that it never happened, but I'd bet good money it's 
extremely rare.

-Steve K8LX

On 6/26/2017 21:44 PM, john at kk9a.com wrote:

> There are a few commercial tower guys on this list, I wonder if any have
> seen these exploded tower bases?

> From:	Patrick Greenlee <patrick_g at windstream.net>
> Date:	Mon, 26 Jun 2017 13:31:57 -0500
> 
> There seems to be an urban myth in popular circulation about foundations
> being subject to being blown to bits or at least cracked open sufficiently
> for them to fail due to lightning. If this were a real threat wouldn't it be
> common experience with Ufer grounds? Can anyone provide a reference to a
> properly documented incident where lightning blew apart a foundation?
> 
> I'd be happy to abandon my current thinking and get on board with the
> lightning blows up concrete folks it there were sufficient factual evidence.