Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[prabe]

Not the sort of thing to wear in a thunderstorm.

Or exactly the sort of thing to wear in a thunderstorm.

 

[MoonSong]

Or exactly the sort of thing to wear in a thunderstorm.

Only if it touches the ground. Otherwise your legs will be charred.

 

[prabe]

Only if it touches the ground. Otherwise your legs will be charred.

Depends on why you're wearing it in a thunderstorm.

 

[Ryujin]

Only if it touches the ground. Otherwise your legs will be charred.

I once had lightning strike a traffic signal post that was right next to me, in an absolute downpour, while sitting at that light and waiting to make a left turn on a motorcycle. I felt that. I'd never want to actually be hit, no matter what I was wearing.

 

[Mad_Jack]

The classic four new England seasons are (said in thick back-country accent): "Fall, Wintah, Black Fly... and Construction."

Yup.. Cold and windy, cold and wet, windy and wet, and dry and hot...

View attachment 425159

Clearly they've never been to Singapore...

 

[RealAlHazred]

I once had lightning strike a traffic signal post that was right next to me, in an absolute downpour, while sitting at that light and waiting to make a left turn on a motorcycle. I felt that. I'd never want to actually be hit, no matter what I was wearing.

I was once driving to work on the Garden State Parkway; it was three lanes of heavy stop-and-go traffic due to the rain storm. Suddenly, it turned into an absolute downpour and traffic stopped. Then, lightning began striking trees on either side of the roadway; I counted at least twenty strikes, so it must have been thirty or so, over the course of a couple of minutes.

Then it stopped, a few minutes later the rain lessened and traffic began to move again, and ten minutes later the sun was out when I finally got off the Parkway.

It was the damnedest thing. Maybe a D&D wizard was practicing his spellcasting nearby? Still, thirty strikes, how high was his level?

 

[Mad_Jack]

I was once crossing a bridge during a storm when a huge chunk of ball lightning formed over the hood of my car...

It was freaky.

 

[MoonSong]

I once had lightning strike a traffic signal post that was right next to me, in an absolute downpour, while sitting at that light and waiting to make a left turn on a motorcycle. I felt that. I'd never want to actually be hit, no matter what I was wearing.

Still safer than being hit directly without it. But yeah, not a nice thing to happen to you.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

full metal jacket?

Not if Ea-Nasir was involved.

 

[Ryujin]

I was once crossing a bridge during a storm when a huge chunk of ball lightning formed over the hood of my car...

It was freaky.

I've only every seen Ball Lightning once in my life, during a storm that spawned several tornadoes. Freaky isn't the half of it.