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Default Lightning strike.

On 05/04/2021 20:56, Adrian Caspersz wrote:
On 05/04/2021 20:43, Jethro_uk wrote:
On Mon, 05 Apr 2021 18:17:41 +0100, Steve Walker wrote:

On 05/04/2021 16:34, GB wrote:

I know someone that was thrown across the room and the kitchen sink
blown off the wall, when a nearby ground strike travelled into the house
via the pipes!


Aren't cows regularly killed by strikes ? The distance between front and
rear legs being enough to create a fatal potential difference ?


Gives me an idea for a nice cottage industry, selling rubber boots for
cows.

Three per cow? or four?


Four - then you have redundancy in case one becomes damaged or lost. You
know what it's like walking in mud, getting your wellies stuck and
walking out of one