TID: InterEcho 1.19 6E030205


MSGID: 1:19/33.0 27503f77 
Drew,

DK>That is bad.  When that storm hit us, it was a doozy.  Lightning I guess hit
DK>the building and the garage... knocked out both garage door openers,
DK>everyone's U-Verse routers... etc.  I lost the router and the BBS computer b
DK>not the Lantronix box that connects them.  It was actually neighborhood
DK>wide.... when they finally came to fix my Internet, the guy told me they sti
DK>had over 200 active service calls justs in my part of the city.

DK>Nasty stuff.

  Very much so...considering that lightning:

1) Is 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit (5 times hotter than the surface of the sun)

2) Can strike as much as 20 miles from the parent thunderstorm (bolt from the
blue, as it can be clear overhead)

3) Has 300,000 volts and 30,000 amps of electricity with each strike

4) Can be as much as 5 miles long.

  In short, it's no contest. Too bad we couldn't store up that power and use it
to not have to pay high electric bills. Along that line though, one set of
lightning strikes hit a power substation on the west side of Little Rock,
putting much of the western half of the city in the dark for several hours.
And, the storms in Arkasas are prolific lightning producers.

Daryl

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