goldstar
Senior Member
- Location
- New Jersey
- Occupation
- Electrical Contractor
Went to look at some storm & lightning damage yesterday at a friends house. He said he was just about to walk out the front door to mail some letters when lightning hit the tree about 20' in front of his house. It struck the top of the tree, came down the sides in 4 locations in a striated pattern and blew off the bark about 50 feet away. It burrowed a hole in the soil at the base of the tree, traveled under the driveway and hit a sprinkler control wire, traveled into the house, blew a hole in the sprinkler cable, toasted the sprinkler control unit, blew the transformer apart, blew the plug for the sewer ejector motor completely out of the receptacle and toasted the receptacle. There was no other damage.
I told my friend, I know you're feeling unlucky right now but if I were you I'd go out and buy a lottery ticket. A) you're alive to tell the story and B) there wasn't extensive damage.
I told my friend, I know you're feeling unlucky right now but if I were you I'd go out and buy a lottery ticket. A) you're alive to tell the story and B) there wasn't extensive damage.