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Date: 27 Mar 94 04:21:09 GMT
From: agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!mailer.acns.fsu.edu!freenet3.scri.fsu.edu!freenet3.scri.fsu.edu!not-for-mail@ucbvax.berkeley.edu
Subject: YLs/XYLs Anywhere?
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu

Hello, all, I'm Gayle, N0UTX, and my QTH is Fredericktown MO! I'd love
to chat with other lady hams around the nets! I am the lib

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Date: 27 Mar 94 01:13:46 GMT
From: agate!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!news.unt.edu!news.oc.com!NewsWatcher!user@ucbvax.berkeley.edu
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu

References <1994Mar17.214945.22919@ke4zv.atl.ga.us>, <Cn41oy.L6@hpqmoea.sqf.hp.com>, <wa2iseCn4sE4.KxM@netcom.com>e
Subject : Re: Grounding and lightning protection--KE4ZV

In article <wa2iseCn4sE4.KxM@netcom.com>, wa2ise@netcom.com (Robert Casey)
wrote:

> About 30 years ago, lightning hit a tree in my parent's house's 
> backyard.  Boom!  Wooden schrapnel all over the backyard!  Good
> thing we were all inside the house.  Probably a steam explosion in 
> the tree.
> 
> ------
> A day without netnews is like a day without sunshine!

My partner and I have (actually used to have) a 60' ponderosa pine
tree near our cabin, located at 9,000' elevation in the Colorado 
Rockies.  One day while we were away, lightning hit it.  When we
returned, it was now 7' high.  Suprisingly enough there weren't any
real obvious burn marks, it just appeared to have been dynamited.

The force of the explosion was pretty great.  We found relatively
small pieces of wood 100 yards away and there was the equivalent
of a 10' 2*4 rammed length wise THROUGH the wall of an out-house
about 50' away (which would have probably really helped things along
if anyone had been sitting it it :-)


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      Bob Wier, East Texas State U., Commerce, Texas
keeper of the Adobe Photoshop, MC68HC11, ICOM mailing lists
      wier@merlin.etsu.edu (watch for address change) 

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