sam vimes
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A picture for those that don't think there's anything to worry about (and possibly the best advert for split cane or fibreglass that I've seen
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Fishing in an electrical storm.
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barbelboi
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******** Dragon Carp gear
Jerry
Jerry
bennygesserit
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Wow I wonder if his alarm went off
sam vimes
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******** Dragon Carp gear
Jerry
Is the carbon content of a DC rod high enough for lightning to be a worry?
bennygesserit
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This should be a caption competition , which of course I have already won !
barbelboi
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Is the carbon content of a DC rod high enough for lightning to be a worry?
I just thought the air temperature had reached 68F
Jerry
chub_on_the_block
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Shoddy looking swingtips
terry m
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Is that a genuine picture of a real occurence?
If yes then it's a sobering vision.
If yes then it's a sobering vision.
sam vimes
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I can't guarantee it being genuine but I nicked it from Eric's Angling's Facebook page. I suspect it is genuine.
chub_on_the_block
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Volcano lake carping: dont sink the rod tip
I would have thought that the rod pod, the rest of the rods and the surrounding area would have been blasted if it was genuine.
sam vimes
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Well, I can't say for sure and don't feel any particular compunction to convince anyone either way. However, if lightning strikes left blackened blast marks everywhere they touched down, there'd be blackened buldings, masts, chimneys, rooftops and earth all over the country.
laguna
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See how they're pointing at the clouds?
Cloud-to-ground lightning
As a channel of negative charge, called a step leader nears the ground it is attracted to a channel of positive charge reaching up, a streamer, normally through something tall, such as a tree, house, or telephone pole (or in this case carbon conductors) is created. When the oppositely-charged leader and streamer connect, a powerful electrical current begins flowing. A return stroke of bright luminosity travels about 60,000 miles per second back towards the cloud.
This streamer might explain why the rod ends are fried and not the butts and pods because the lightning never hit the ground!
Cloud-to-ground lightning
As a channel of negative charge, called a step leader nears the ground it is attracted to a channel of positive charge reaching up, a streamer, normally through something tall, such as a tree, house, or telephone pole (or in this case carbon conductors) is created. When the oppositely-charged leader and streamer connect, a powerful electrical current begins flowing. A return stroke of bright luminosity travels about 60,000 miles per second back towards the cloud.
This streamer might explain why the rod ends are fried and not the butts and pods because the lightning never hit the ground!
steph mckenzie
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That's taking Slack Lining to a whole other extreme.
itsfishingnotcatching
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Fishing for electric eels posed several problems for Jeremy Wade