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chris@panteg
29-03-2014, 09:27
There was a huge thunderstorm here yesterday , the building I work in shook as a lightening bolt struck close by ?

I went outside to the upstairs transport office and this is what I saw ...
It was very close .

https://scontent-a-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/t1.0-9/1544595_609438289135697_993722060_n.jpg

After about 10 minutes from this photo , the building ,a cricket pavilion was just a smouldering shell .
The Barbarian
29-03-2014, 09:28
Blimey!
Macca
29-03-2014, 09:31
Holey Moley. Looks like a shell hit it. We had some pretty violent thunder and lightening last night, right overhead at one point it made the double glazing rattle. Then hailstones the size of marbles. Typical British Spring weather.
chris@panteg
29-03-2014, 09:32
It was incredible , like an earthquake ? Not that I've ever experienced one but pretty scary .

The power of nature .
chris@panteg
29-03-2014, 09:34
This was an earlier photo ,not long after the strike .

https://scontent-b-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/t1.0-9/1964793_609437302469129_617976592_n.jpg
chris@panteg
29-03-2014, 09:37
As far as I know ,no one was in the Pavilion at the time , in a few weeks it may have been very different ?
Firebottle
29-03-2014, 10:01
We had a close strike some years ago, I'm guessing about half a kilometer. The earth potential must have lifted considerably.

It trashed the computer, modem, cordless phone, electric toilet and mains powered video camera.

It also blew the bell push off the metal gate post at the top of the drive :eek: Needless to say the bell transformer was well knackered.

:cool: Alan
Macca
29-03-2014, 10:13
Electric toilet? !!

Tell us more...
walpurgis
29-03-2014, 10:51
Electric toilet? !!

Tell us more...

Do we really need to get bogged down in that? :eyebrows:
Ali Tait
29-03-2014, 10:56
He must have been feeling flush..
Havana
29-03-2014, 12:26
You taking the piss again ?
Firebottle
29-03-2014, 12:58
You load of jokers :lol:

It was a macerating toilet Martin, so it had connection with the mains and the water supply (earth potential), so a few too many kilovolts did the control board in.

:cool: Alan
Marco
30-03-2014, 06:47
Wow - someone had a bloody hot curry!!! :eek: :D

Marco.