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Lightning strikes a river.....

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KarlBAndersen1

08/04/2017 01:09PM

Another reason to stay away from the water during a storm:

Lightning strikes river

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KarlBAndersen1

08/04/2017 01:12PM

The lightning stayed grounded to earth under the water. It then took a moment for all that mass of water to vaporize.
Anything in that water is dead.

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mirth

08/04/2017 02:23PM

WhiteWolf posted a link to this same video on Facebook late last week. Seemed like reactions were a mixed bag of wow & disbelief to others offering opinions it was det cord or submerged dynamite.

Not sure if the earlier link required a Facebook account to view or not, so thanks for posting this version too. :)

When a man is part of his canoe, he is part of all that canoes have ever known. - Sigurd F. Olson, "The Singing Wilderness"

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thebotanyguy

08/04/2017 03:44PM

Previous BWCA.com thread

"Said one of these men, long past seventy years of age: 'I could carry, paddle, walk and sing with any man I ever saw. I have been twenty-four years a canoe man, and forty-one years in service; no portage was ever too long for me. Fifty songs could I sing. I have saved the lives of ten voyageurs. Have had twelve wives and six running dogs. I spent all my money in pleasure. Were I young again, I should spend my life the same way over. There is no life so happy as a voyageur's life!'"

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Savage Voyageur

08/04/2017 04:07PM

This is a video of someone blowing up a log jam or a beaver dam with det cord. Notice the logs in the river that move as the explosion.

"So many lakes, so little time." WWJD

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maxxbhp

08/04/2017 08:20PM

The only thing I can add to this is the same thing I added to the last one. That smoke is absolutely from dynamite. I blasted rock for a living 40 years ago, I've seen it 1000 times, there's no doubt.

"...And the days I keep my gratitude higher than my expectations, .......well, I have really good days". Ray Wiley Hubbard

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mooseplums

08/11/2017 03:15AM

This video was featured on the news tonight. It is not from a lightning strike as claimed.
They were blasting out a channel to clear debris and deepen it.
They also noted that when lightning strikes water it spreads out over the surface, and does not penetrate very deep. That's why fish are not killed or affected.

"I am haunted by waters"~Norman Maclean "A River Runs Through It"

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SouthernExposure