Originally published at: Watch the explosive moment a truck on the highway is struck with a lightning bolt | Boing Boing
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Someone’s about to find out about the “acts of god” clause in their insurance contract
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was not hit…but was in the path of the said item…
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Couldn’t have been that bad if the popcorn didn’t even go off.
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Jesus Christ that was crazy
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So why do they have a package of microwave popcorn in their truck?
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I had this happen to me a number of years ago driving down an interstate at 70 mph in Alabama. It wasn’t a direct strike but it was near enough to fry my alternator and radio and blow out one of my tires…and scare the shit out of me and my companion.
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I’ve read that a car is one of the safer places to be in a lightning strike (assuming you have to get hit…) because the rubber tires attenuate the ground connection quite a bit and the body creates a decent skin effect to direct most of the current around you. Still, I wouldn’t want to put it to the test.
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It is one of the safer places to be but not really because of the insulating effect of the tires. It’s all about the metal body being more conducive than human flesh, plus the faraday cage effect.
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I wonder who he chose instead of Zeus in his trial of the gods. Hopefully not Dionysus, since he was driving.
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Betcha God was aiming at the deer nuts hanging off the truck.
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That wasn’t actually a dashcam recording, though. So now I’m wondering why they just happened to be recording at just the right moment. Did one of them have a premonition? Is one of them a lightning whisperer? Did they call the lightning down?!
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