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(Greg) wrote in
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That's when
lightning hit the aboveground transmissions lines,

Underground lines are not immune from lightning. The study done at UCF
showed lines can still be hit if they are 6' down. They do have some
cool collections of fused glass tubes where lightning did blast it's
way through the sand we call dirt here.

Called fulgurites,and NOVA did a neat show on lightning and it's effects
on power lines.(also a neat rocketry exibition)

several Florida universities are doing such research.

Central Florida is the lightning capital of the US.

--
Jim Yanik
jyanik-at-kua.net