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CanisLupusArctos · 06-26-2008, 01:22 PM

This is great info to know! I never really studied "what lightning does once it lands" because I was always preoccupied with what's happening in the sky. Anyone else?

Slowly, I'm leaning towards the possibility that the lightning strike C Tucker mentioned might have been what fried the electronics (selectively) and that it might have introduced some voltage into the cable from the wind speed sensor.

But then I have the problem of "what speed was the wind?" I have witnessed a few events at or near hurricane force within the last 10 years and have seen the trees pushed to limits that I think plant biologists would want to study. Everyone seems to agree this event was far greater than anything that's hit in the last 10 years. So by that aspect, 112 mph is sort of in the ballpark.

If it happened, we have to answer the question, how did it happen without causing damage? There is no damage path on the island. Unless, as one of my family suggested, it started over the lake and literally ended at the house. It has to start and end somewhere.

There's also no way of knowing if the trees weren't at least fatally weakened by the wind until a gust of only 40 mph comes through and knocks down a bunch of them. I have seen trees survive big wind only to get knocked over by smaller wind a few months later.

06-26-2008, 01:22 PM	#25
CanisLupusArctos Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Center Harbor Posts: 1,049 Thanks: 15 Thanked 472 Times in 107 Posts	Thanks! This is great info to know! I never really studied "what lightning does once it lands" because I was always preoccupied with what's happening in the sky. Anyone else? Slowly, I'm leaning towards the possibility that the lightning strike C Tucker mentioned might have been what fried the electronics (selectively) and that it might have introduced some voltage into the cable from the wind speed sensor. But then I have the problem of "what speed was the wind?" I have witnessed a few events at or near hurricane force within the last 10 years and have seen the trees pushed to limits that I think plant biologists would want to study. Everyone seems to agree this event was far greater than anything that's hit in the last 10 years. So by that aspect, 112 mph is sort of in the ballpark. If it happened, we have to answer the question, how did it happen without causing damage? There is no damage path on the island. Unless, as one of my family suggested, it started over the lake and literally ended at the house. It has to start and end somewhere. There's also no way of knowing if the trees weren't at least fatally weakened by the wind until a gust of only 40 mph comes through and knocks down a bunch of them. I have seen trees survive big wind only to get knocked over by smaller wind a few months later.