[Rhodes22-list] sailing and lightning

Richard Smith sailnut at att.net
Mon Jul 31 11:24:30 EDT 2006


> When I was in high school, a friend's brother died when lightening struck
> his car.  He was lying underneath working on it.  He probably had a wrench
> touching the engine when it happened.  A very tragic freak accident.
>

Yes... BUT if had been in the car he would have been OK.  The car would
function as a Faraday cage.

Richard Smith



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