Lighting struck tree

[sghoghunter]

Right at quitting time yesterday a rain/lightning storm came through and knocked some of our lines off. On my second call I found this pine about 30 feet away from the line. I got out to take a pic of it and after trying for maybe ten times it finally took a pic without turning off the camera and making phone go to home screen. I could walk back to the truck and everything worked fine but up close to that tree there was definitely some crazy aliens messing around.

 

[Core Lokt]

Well lookee there I’m not the only one to post sideways pictures

 

[Core Lokt]

Must of still had some energizer in it

 

[sghoghunter]

Well lookee there I’m not the only one to post sideways pictures

Guess we must be the only ones that’s not smart enough to do it right

 

[4HAND]

Whew! Lightning worked on that pine.

 

[dixiecutter]

 

[Core Lokt]

Ya know, it may live if the beetles don’t get in it.

 

[Twiggbuster]

Massive strike.
It will be all brown in a few days.

 

[Mr Bya Lungshot]

That tree is nothing but a hazard to anything around it.

 

[TnHunter356]

Think there's enough unburned wood to be able to turn down into a nice baseball bat?

Asking for a friend... His name is Roy

 

[Kev]

It dead.

 

[Lukikus2]

Let it cure right there. May turn out to be some good lightard.

 

[notnksnemor]

Does lightning go from the ground up or the cloud down?

 

[Big7]

Yeah... That thing really got shredded !!

My Grandparents estate had huge "Smith" pecan trees. Thats just about a lightening rod.

GREAT PIC !!!?

 

[BriarPatch99]

I'd hated to be leaned up against that taken a nap ....probably been very long nap...

 

[sghoghunter]

Does lightning go from the ground up or the cloud down?

All I’ve ever seen came from sky to ground except after a thunderstorm you can watch what I’ve always called heat lightning go across the sky

 

[treemanjohn]

Does lightning go from the ground up or the cloud down?

Yes. Both happen. Ive been told that lightning starts in the sky and sends a charge to the ground which sends a bolt from the ground back up.

Trees can live. Pines typically pick up beetles. Steam blows the bark off

 

[mguthrie]

We were up on a roof yesterday afternoon with a T-storm rolling in. I got everybody down till it passed. Got a good soaking rain to. Lightning doesn’t play

 

[NE GA Pappy]

Well lookee there I’m not the only one to post sideways pictures

isn't it obvious that the tree is growing out of an extremely steep hill?

 

[Ruger#3]

Thought you guys might want to see what charged air looks like before it discharges. This is what the cockpit windows often look like when your skirting around the edge of a thunderstorm.