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Originally Posted by Altavia
How Does One Lightning Strike Kill Multiple Animals? - E&S Grounding Ask the Experts
How far can the ground current travel?
Hazardous step potentials can occur at a significant distance away from any given strike and the more current that is pumped into the ground, the greater the hazard. Animals have been reported to have been killed at distances over 250 feet from a lightning strike which shows just how far electrical current can travel through the ground.
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I was watching TV during my first of many biz trips to FL about 30 years ago, and i was staying in a Sunrise hotel. On the news was a report of a woman being killed by lightning while pushing her shopping cart to her car at Sawgrass Mills.
That blew my mind coming from the NE where T-storms are relatively infrequent of that magnitude. Now, meh
What also blew my mind was reading about the protection cone of a lightening rod, and then seeing lightning NOT hitting the tallest metal object at a refinery in Texas while on an oil tanker . . as well as knowing someone killed by a lightning strike within the cone of protection on an oil tanker