At 15:27 the man near the truck was hit in the foot by the lightening going through the ground. You can see sparks under his foot just before he fell. That is why he was limping and pain showed on his face when he tried to get away and fell to the ground again.
You are 100% correct! I had thought the same thing. But when the narrator guy said he wasn't I just let it go. But when I was reading comments & saw this I went back slowed it down & zoomed in. Your right, it sure did travel through the ground & got at least the one guy! Nice catch👍
I have found that often the person narrating doesn't have a clue about the videos they are showing. You could clearly see the man was hit by the lightning traveling through the trailer. Wasn't hurt at all but rolls around obviously in a lot of pain..!
It doesn't always strike the highest object? Well, in order to be the highest object, it's important to smoke a lot of weed. Thanks for the advice, Professor! 😏
It strikes the tallest _most conductive_ object. If you had two tall objects, one metal and one made of wood. The one made of metal would get struck first.
@@TheSkyGuy77 The one made of metal would be more likely to be struck, but there is never a guarantee. Lightning doesn't always follow the obvious path.
Pro tips for lightning, sometimes before a lightning strike in your area the hairs on your body will stand up from the static. If that happens you have seconds to react. There are also two types of lightning. Positive and megative. Negative lightning makes up 95% of strikes, but positive is brighter, more powerful (10x more), last longer, and can strike miles away from the storm, positive lightning can strike 25 miles away from the base of its initial cloud. Also, the myth lightning never strikes the same place is oposite true. The air remaining after the strike is now ionized, giving future strikes an easier path to travel with less risistance.
I sat in my recliner during a storm. Lightning hit the power pole 50 feet away. A finger of electricity shot from the pole, through the window, and hit me right above my right eye. The impact knocked me back. I ended up with a black eye and vision problems for several years. Imagine if the entire bolt had hit me?
Was the window open or closed? I have heard of lightning both following air currents into homes, and also just passing through glass without breaking it.
1:10 - That kid didn't "shrink in terror". He did exactly what you're supposed to do when threatened by lightning. Get low, tuck your head, place hands behind neck. Whether instinctive or taught, a great job on his part!
Nobody is taught that, there's no procedures for escaping lightning! The kid ducked because of the noise that accompanies a lightning strike, not because he was taught too lol
@@donniev8181 I said "INSTINCTIVE or taught"! Shrinking into a ball and tucking + covering your head is your best option for surviving a lightning strike. Full stop.
@wallyman292 That's not what he did brainiac. He ducked because of the massive clap of thunder that accompanies a lightning strike that close. Now, run along junior, the adults are talking.
@@donniev8181 OOooooo! Finally found a hair or 2 on your groin, did you??? Congrats! Make sure you take care of those puppies. . . They could end up being the only ones you'll ever grow!
While I was in the Navy,a squall kicked up on the Chesapeake bay. I was standing on the fantail or stern of the ship with a few others when there was a brilliant light and huge crack as a bolt of lightening hit the water about 50 yards before us. It was close enough it singed arm hairs.
I've been chasing storms since I was a child! A month and a half ago I was down fishing at one of my favorite bends and rivers & an F1 came to me! I have it forming. I grabbed my two lightning rods & took off up the bank. I had visions of, Auntie M...... Auntie M.... & ending up in the middle of the river! I finally got to the top level & all the oxygen was sucked outta my lungs & I said and here we go! My jeep was 15ft away & my hat piveted off my head twisted & became a parachute/gurat 😂! I was leaning into it and was dragged back & bounced the young men who were sheltering in their car! After it went over it went back up into the clouds I went back down to get my chair & ice chest but Zeus was coming over so had to shelter until he went over. I took Pecos Bill completely seriously. I stopped posting them after ppl were afraid I was going to die 😂. He hasn't killed me yet!!
@@donniev8181 You're right with the first one, bro. God DID create *EVERYTHING* . ( Except *faggots* , but that is for a different topic, I'll stck to this video for now ).
Doing a cross country motorcycle trip, driving through the desert in Nevada, middle of nowhere on Rte 50 - "The loneliest Highway in America" - and I got caught in a thunderstorm. There was NOWHERE to seek shelter, so all I could do was be a moving target, had two different lightning bolts about 5 minutes apart hit not more than 50 feet from me. Talk about bright and loud!
OK, that beats my lightning story. But, I was still plenty scared. I was driving through Southern NM, beautiful country, but no cell service. I storm caught me and, being on top of the mountains, all the trees were short and small, lighting was really lighting up the area all around me. It was a really intense few miles there. But, I was in a truck and at least there were a few trees around, nothing taller than about 15-20 feet though. I can't imagine no trees and on a bike. glad that you made it
One of the Apollo rocket launches was hit by lightning on the way up, fritzed out the computer systems, they rebooted and fixed themselves. Amazing design.
The Apollo Command Module systems that were affected aren't used at all during launch. The Saturn V has its own navigation computer which fortunately wasn't hit. If it had been, everyone on Apollo 12 could have died.
@@JeffreyRust-oq7rw Measuring the temperature of lightning is simple to do. You just take a thermometer out into a field during a thunderstorm, hold it over your head, and wait for lightning to strike it. My friend, "Crispy Fried" Chesterfield, does it all the time. 😸
My dad was sitting at the edge of his garage watching a big thunderstorm and lightning hit the manhole/drain cover in the middle of the street just outside. The electricity traveled thru the water and up my dad's legs causing him to lose all of his hair instantly!
At 23:31 you can see the lightening travel to the outlet. Every electronic that was plugged in that house is destroyed. Even high grade surge protector cannot compete with lightening.
at 1:25 wasn't fear the kid hit the ground . His ear drums felt blown out and he couldn't see for a second . I been that close to a lighting strike I know
if I was in a ship in a lightning storm, I would just scream until someone would stop the ship and I’ll never go on the ship with dark clouds again I’ll never go anywhere in dark clouds
23:50 yes you can tell how far away that one lightning was. But a thunderstorm has a diameter of several kilometers across. If you count 3 seconds it doesn't mean that the storm is a kilometer away. It is more likely already right above you and you should definitely quickly find shelter or throw away anything metallic you carry with you and make yourself as small as possible. Lightning strike randomly along the entire area below the storm. If the last one was "3 seconds away" the next one could be right at you. It is not the most dangerous when lightning and thunder happen at the same time for you. That is just an indicator that the lightning just hit you or narrowly missed you. But 1-3 seconds between lightning and thunder are just as dangerous. Even 4-6 seconds are already very dangerous. That is like 1-2 kilometers. Large cells can be much bigger than that.
I was on an, unfortunately, very small plane many years ago. Maybe 15 passengers. It was a puddle jumper between Ithaca NY and Albany NY. There was a thunderstorm visible on the horizon. The Captain said, "you may see flashes of light out your window. FLASHES OF LIGHT??!!?? You mean lightning?? We're not stupid! The lightning wasn't the issue. It was, however, the roughest flight I've ever been on and I started to get a bit queasy. Thank goodness it was only a 45 min. flight!
@@Corpsman01 I have had a similarly tenuous love affair, with good ol' elec-trickery, as a friend of mine refers to it. I'll never forget, when I was 12. I moved to northern Idaho, to live with my dad and most of step-family, for my 6th grade year. I started out staying outside the house in a small camper trailer, as with nearly the whole family there, it was a might rather crowded. All assholes, and elbows, if you know what I mean. When the weather began to get colder, I moved inside, onto the living room couch. During the stint in the camper, something strange occurred and persisted for a while, which to this day, completely baffles me. One night my stepsister had a friend over spending the night. Her and I were only a few months apart in age. Anyway, her and her friend got bored, and decided to come hang out with me for a while. We did what 12 normally do, when they live out in boonies, played a couple bored... oops I meant board games. ( always get those confused ) After a bit, we all decided to step outside, to stretch our legs due to cramped conditions inside the camper. I was 1st out the door, followed by my sister, and her friend, who only stepped out onto the stairs. I don't remember why we did so, but at some point my sister grabber my hand, then her friends right after. So her and I were on the ground and the friend was on the trailer steps, with one hand on the door knob. Suddenly, as soon as my sis caught hold of her friends free hand, 110 volts went through my body, from fingertip, to fingertips... neither of them had felt a thing. Only me. Mind you, nothing unusual had occurred prior to that night, to give any indication or warning. The night was, cool and clear, so no storming, or anything like that either. For context, however, I should mention that my electricity was being supplied by an extension cord plugged into an outlet in the garage. ( a separate structure, from the house. This cord ran on the ground for about 60 - 70 ft. most of which was outside, in the open air. Like I said, no problems, before that night, but after that night, and for the rest of my time in the camper, every time I touched anything metal on the trailer, I would get shocked!!! The door handle, the light fixtures, the trim, anything metal. If it happened to be connected to the chassis of the camper, I got 110 volts. Every time!!!!! Talk about infuriating, imagine, if you will, me, just trying to open the door, eventually with 2 sticks at one point, because I just wanted to get in to my " bedroom ", but kept getting shocked every time i grabbed the damn handle, thus, the 2 sticks... Along other with a few other things that happened years before, and also after, I came to some conclusions... 1. Due to that incident and a number of others, I concluded that I am what's known as a " path to ground " so, basically elec-trickery, will be more likely go to ground through me if I happen to be between the source and the ground. Makes doing any kind of elec. work, involving " hot " wires, dicey, and annoying for me. 2. Due to taking a reading with a multimeter many years later, in an attempt to measure the voltage of my own bio-electric flow, and finding it to range from as low as .2V - .3V, to as high as 2.2V- 2.3V. This amazed me on the one hand, and made sense of a few things from my childhood, such as how for some unknown reason 2 different watches, stopped working, after wearing them, nearly non-stop, for 3-4 months. If you flicked them, they would tick-off 2, or 3 more seconds, before abruptly stopping again... one was a Bulova, and the other an Omega, so they were by no means cheap exactly. I know what you're probably thinking... You overwound them... NOPE!!! that was a possibility, with one of them, albeit a rather slim one. It wouldn't be possible with the other one, AT ALL!!!, because while one of them was a " manual "winder. The other, was a kinetic self-winder, and thusly should not have been susceptible to the overwinding thing. I'm pretty much certain that they had both become magnetized from exposure to my current over a long period... I am also known to build a substantial amount of static elec. Just passing through the room/apt./house, where the floors are carpeted. When I say substantial, I mean, enough, that if I don't touch the screws on switch plates, like every 10', as I walk through, by the time I stop walking, the charge I'm carrying packs a wallop. Think of the shock from the electric igniter in a cigarette lighter some of them can actually pack good little wallop. The zaps I've been known put out are about 10 times stronger, which still isn't all that bad if received on a part ones body, that's not all that sensitive, but the few poor women, that have had the misfortune to kiss me on the lips/be kissed on their foreheads by me right following a lengthy stroll through on carpeted floors, have been treated to some rather painful belts of static discharge, that usually trace the entire circumference of my lips, all at once, and without warning... that s#¡t HURTS¡¡¡ It's bad just coming off my fingertips, or some other part of me... Supposedly your lips are the most nerve dense part of you, and are incredibly tender/sensitive... it makes me feel horrible, when it happens, because I know how much that s#¡t hurts, but there's nothing much I can do about it.anyone ever rubbed their feet on the carpet really fast, trying to build up a static charge to zap a friend, or a sibling...
18:16 - notice this guys camera glitches the second before the strike, and how far away he still was from it. I didn't know lightning had such a large sphere of influence.
@@stargazer7644 it started a split second prior. I'm pretty sure of that . Watch it again. It starts going weird right before the bolt grounds out. I don't know about any "rolling shutter", but I DO know that it's for the same reason your t.v. gets screwy,( or at least used to anyway ) when you use anything in close proximity that has an electric motor, even d.c. it has to do with electrical fields like those that are generated around the magneto when a motor is running. I'm not positive that is a problem anymore, but it was, when I was younger. Anyone older than 20, I'm sure, remembers how vacuuming near the t.v. would make the picture go all wonky... same with the camera, and the lightning. I just didn't realize that it affected things quite that far away. Although, I'm not particularly surprised by it...
@@1977misfit There is nothing a split second prior. This video is recorded at 25 fps. I watched it frame by frame. The strike starts at 18:15.92 (23 frames after the 15 second mark). There is no glitching or interference before the strike - and why would there be? The strike itself is what would cause any interference. You won't see any interference BEFORE a lightning strike on any device - it's the lightning bolt that causes the radio frequency interference. The camera has a rolling shutter, that's why you see part of a frame flashed out but the rest of the frame is normal. It has to do with how data is read out of the imaging chip. Motors with brushes cause wide band interference as the brushes spark as they rotate. Lightning is also a spark that causes wideband radio frequency interference. A camera isn't going to show RFI unless it uses radio. A TV is a radio receiver. A camera is not.
@@stargazer7644 you win... although I'm pretty sure a camera is as subject to distubance by strong emf spikes as any other device used for recording or receiving audio/video. Apparently your experience has been different from mine. Either that, or you really just want to argue. I know what I saw, and my wife can see it too. I'm pretty sure it's electromagnetic disturbance, and NOT the brightness of the lightning overwhelming the camera. Agree to disagree?
A few points 1) Lightning rods do not divert or attract lightning, this is a common misconception. While they are grounded and can divert lightning, they're intended to prevent lightning strikes from happening. Lightning rods act as a ground for static electricity build up, especially on larger buildings. Wind, dirt, dust, and other airborne debris when encountering and blown along the surfaces of buildings generate static electrical charge, no different than rubbing a balloon against wool. This build up creates a negative ion charge around the building which attracts lightning. So lightning rods are installed with a wire or bundle of wires, or very long rod, passing through the building to ground. This allows for negative ion flow to discharge reducing or eliminating that static build up. In doing so, it reduces the chances of lightning striking. 2) We can, in fact, predict to a certain degree, where lightning will strike. It is not inherently the highest point either, but rather two factors that exists; as previously stated, static build up of ions in a given location, and shortest distance to ground. Any magneto disruption to a static ion field or sudden discharge of that field can trigger a lightning strike if the right conditions are met (as seen with the guy hanging the wrench onto a steel pillar in their shop). 3) Water is a very poor conductor of electricity, salt water (sea water) is a very good conductor of electricity. Lighting striking fresh water disperses along the surface of the water and down to a depth of only a few inches. When striking sea water, lightning can reach down as far as half a mile.
Had one of those yesterday in Punta Cana Dominican Republic 🇩🇴 at the Airport. During engine start of my Aircraft using a Start cart due to my APU was Inop a Lightning ⚡️ Strike likely hit mere Feet away(Felt like it hit my aircraft an Airbus A319!!) The guy on the headset was so stunned and the Sound and EMF of the Strike was Incredible and then the Smell of Burnt “Something” became evident in a few seconds after the Strike. I lost Communication with the guy on the ground and thought the worst had happened to him!!! It fried my Inter-phone hence loosing two way communication with him…….. Thankfully the guy was only shaken up and was not adversely affected. Lightning ⚡️ is nothing to be trifled with…..,…..
Thinking that the tires on a car are going to protect you from lightning strikes is like trying to protect yourself from a canon with a sheet of paper.
While working at a feed mill, in Viola, Wisconsin, conducting our dailies, it was time for our break. As I sat on the loading dock, during inclement weather, a lightening bolt hit a tree, about 60 feet behind us(?) or so, and it sure got everyone's attention! Blew the lil maple tree to splinters. And that's not the only personalized event, in my life!!!!!
I used to live in Ontario Canada. We had a cottage on a lake about 2 hrs north of Toronto. I was 12 or 13 and playing in the lake. My father said storms coming time to get out. I got a zap that absolutely reduced me to nothing. I had my eyes open, could not move a muscle, floated in the water face down and wondered what the hell happened. I was looking at the sand at the bottom of the lake near the shore (it was waist deep). My father jumped in and pulled me onto the dock. I still coulnd't move a muscle to help him get me out of the water. I laid on the dock while he ran to get help (we had guests). My father and our friend had to take me by the arms and prisoner walk me up to the cottage. My mother gave me a shot of whisky I think. It was a really weird experience. I also didn't hear well for a bit, not long about an hour. Lets just say that at 65 I still have great respect for Mother Nature.
That's the first believable story I've read here. I used to keep my boat at Moon River south of Parry Sound. The only time I ever experience genuine fear is when I am on the water or camping on Georgian Bay. I'll drive in the middle of the night to my car or break into a cottage to get out of the storm. I live in BC now. I've seen maybe 3 storms in the last 15 years. Only thing I miss about Ontario is Georgian Bay and thunderstorms.
It wouldn't be easy to store that energy since it's sudden and unpredictable. And even if you could store that energy, where do you store that instant jump in energy? Charging it into a battery would cause the battery to explode due to a sudden and excessive current. As for capacitors, it would be huge and stationary. No guarantee a lightning will strike it every time.
Living in Florida for 20+ years, we've seen plenty of "close ones"!! The small pond behind our home was a constant target. Before one tropical storm, the pond got a direct hit killing 4 Pink Spoonbills, one Sandhill Crane and 2 turtles. That was just our end of the pond. I'm not sure how many others died at the other end. Lighting is NOTHING to ignore!!
Had a lightning bolt hit a huge Cottonwood Tree across the street from me. I was on the telephone and just happened to look out the window about 2 seconds before it struck the tree......the brightest light, and the tree exploded. Not to mention the sound. It litterally "skinned" the bark off the tree, and split it. Pieces of the tree went everywhere. Like to scare me to death. Was a block away from downtown Bozeman, Montana. It killed the tree and the city had to come and cut down that big ole tree....
@@majbach1968 sure makes ya wonder. If someone would of been hit by the bolt I saw hit that tree, I think it would of blown them to pieces. That big ole cottonwood exploded where the bolt hit it. Freakin' wood, bark, leaves etc went everywhere. Guess years ago there was a forest ranger who had been struck like 7 times...... To me, that is insane.
@@gregorygolden1296 For sure. Wood - even wet wood doesn't conduct electricity as well as a human would - we have more ions in our bodies and our nerves are literally organic wires. When lighting travels through a tree rather than down the wet bark, it meets resistance and causes the water -which is contained - to vapourize. Think of it like taking the cap of a hot radiator. That's why a tree explodes like that. Others, the lightning often travels down the wet bark and causes it to split and permanently kills the cells . People that get hit by a visible channel of lightning do not blow up but they always have scars and burn patterns on their skin where the electricity has the most resistance. The electricity that travels through your body - like the same as a heart defibrillator - fries the nerves, ruptures organs and stops your heart.
From a window in my house, I was watching it rain when I saw my car get struck by lighting about 30 feet away. It fried all of the car's electronics, except the horn, which was continuously blowing. None of the car's fuses were blown, because the lightning came into all electronics through the unfused negative grounds from the body.
I thought i commented so sorry if posted twice. We had one a few years ago. The bang was so loud it caused my brother and I to hit the floor. The strike was about 4-5 miles away on a lake houses garage. The garage was ripped in half and immediately went up in flames (we didnt find that part out till next day news).
In the 1970s I was fishing with a friend under the wharf at the port of Fremantle West Australia to keep out of the rain when a bolt of lightning struck the water about 6 to 8 feet in front of us, our ears were ringing for 3 days as well. We also had the imprint of the lightning in our eyes for a fair while. (It was a Whiteish Blue bar just under a metre across) Luckily it was low-tide or we would have had our feet dangling in the water.
About 48 49 years ago two other diving buddies and we were diving in the ocean Play beautiful calm morning and know where this storm just came up and lightning struck the ocean around us several times there was no fish around us anywhere they have fish at all run for cover and we stayed at about 40-50 ft down for quite a while and then finally after the storm kind of passed over with surfaced women blowing about 90 miles an hour and anyway we survived but it was definitely interesting to have we survived
Was driving to Peoria Ill 8-4-not important to know how I remember the date, but was in a Ford Van, Lightning struck the pavement 50 ft in front of us. Can still see the sparks on the I-74 Hwy.
I'd be cool if you explained the different types of lightning as they play on the videos. The kind that flashes on the same path is much more powerful than a regular one.
In my many years of being a crew member sailing and racing on the Chesapeake Bay, I consider myself lucky for never being struck by lightning despite having always been the one ordered to go to the mast to drop the mainsail. Big bad summer storms are common on the Bay.
One of my oak trees got hit by lightning. The tree was split top to bottom so much that I saw light through the cracks and bark was blown 90 feet away.
One summer, I was working at the front desk of a motel and campground in the Canadian Rockies. I lived in a trailer on the back end of the property. One day, a thunder and lightning storm was working it's way down the valley towards us - very bright and very loud.. Lightning hit the trailer where some other employees lived; it literally blew a hole through the roof and into the trailer. Another bolt hit our water well - All of my lights were turned off, but the lightning strike turned all of my lights back on..Took a couple of days to get the well repaired; in the meantime, no one had running water. A couple of years later, while I was in college, I was living in an apartment in downtown Calgary. Watched the lightning hit the building across the street. Quite spectacular.
8:27 According to the National Weather Service “Commercial passenger planes are struck by lightning once or twice a year on average.” I’m not entirely sure if that all together, or one plane is struck 1-2 times a year!? But still hard to believe it’s not more
Any thunderstorm cloud can bring electrical charges with it, which is how lightning forms. Collisions between water droplets, ice crystals and hail create static charges. When lightning is about to strike near you, the electrically charged atmosphere can cause your hair to stand up.
Your comment about swimming anywhere but in a bathtub during a storm is not good idea is false. You shouldn't be in the shower/tub either if it's storming out in case your house or the pipeline somehow gets hit.
I've been struck by lightning while on my phone and I was partly deaf in my right ear for the whole day. Also I've seen a light pole explode after being hot by lightning.
Water itself is not a good conductor of electricity. It is contaminants contained in the water that is conductive. Pure water is actually a poor conductor of electricity. In fact distilled water is one of the best insulators known to science.
Lightning hit a pine outside our house, traveled through the roots leaving huge furrows and blew out our electric through phone lines. I was home and thought wow, that one was right on top of us. My poor cat went nuts, but it was daytime and I only realized we were hit about a half hour later when I went to turn on lights. I kept soothing my cat, telling her it was ok because I didn't know we were hit, but she did! She never fully trusted me after that, and she walked a half inch off the ground for the rest of the day. Thing is, the phone guy told me they get more hits right up our road than anywhere in the area and they have no idea why. I really thought there'd be a known scientific reason, but there wasn't. Spooky stuff.
Lighting hits power poles all the time. It can fry anything electronic hooked up to it. It fried the transformer, fused something in the outdoor pole mounted switch box, and the and fried my water heater in one place I rented. It also knocked out the power for several miles around as you might guess. Good thing it didn't take out the fridge, microwave, or stove. I thankfully unplugged my computer before it hit. That was scary! The BOOM was deafening! I an my daughter were about 15 yards from the pole inside of the house.
The man at 15:30 was actually hit by electric on the back of his left calf. The lightning hits both of the trucks and shoots out of the rear bumper and hits his left leg.
9:10 This scene is perhaps a rare occurrence; lightning struck the rocket directly. I'm concerned about the rocket's safety. Typhoons are truly terrifying.
Just be as close to the ground as possible. Even though lightning can boast hundreds of amps, with a couple of million or more of volts, it can actually pass right trough your body, if the connection is good enough. Thats why you can pass a signal from an amplifier to a speaker, trough peoples bodies - But dont try this, unless you know what your doing.
