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From: cfbd@southern.co.nz (Colin Douthwaite)
Subject: Re: shocking...
Date: 1996/09/07
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Max Erick Busse-Grawitz (bus@spectrospin.ch) wrote:
>Bob Pebly wrote:
>> 
>> I went out flying at the beach this evening after some thunderstorms
>> rumbled through the area.

[...snip...]


> Just one remark (but I think you already know it): It's exactly 
> those singularities that attract flashes, so don't try these 
> experiments BELOW a thunderstorm...  


I remember reading sometime somewhere long ago that lightning
has been known to strike from a cloudless and clear blue sky !


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