2006-11-10 08:18:23 · 15 answers · asked by STORMY K 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Weather
Lighting does indeed strike multiple times in the same place. The Empire State Building in New York City is an obvious example. It is covered with lighting rods to channel lightning strikes safely.
This old wives tale probably got started because lighting often destroys what it hits. If what previously served as a "lightning rod" has been destroyed, then the lightning probably won't strike there again.
2006-11-10 09:05:22 · answer #1 · answered by Magic One 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lightning does strike the same place twice. Even som unfortunate people multiple times. It is just an old wives tale that says that it doesnt. If you track all lightning strikes in an area for a lomng enough time, you will se repeats. Only reason why we don't see it hit the same place is we don't watch long enough. Lightning will hit anywhere and anything that provides the best conduit to the ground. It does not matter if it is a metal pole or a tree or you. Whatever it finds as the best route it will follow even bypassing obviously better routes.
2006-11-10 08:22:52 · answer #2 · answered by rdbn7734 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lightning certainly can strike the same place twice. The Empire State Building is struck by lightning on average 100 times each year
2006-11-10 08:22:09 · answer #3 · answered by gerlach 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It DOES strike twice or even more in the same place. In fact, any tall object will tend to be struck several times, even in the same storm.
You describe an "old wives tale," or an adage that simply isn't true.
2006-11-10 08:27:20 · answer #4 · answered by Vince M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since the location of lightning strikes are an observation, it is improbable for a person to observe the point of a lightning strike long enough to verify another strike.
2016-05-22 03:26:17 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it does. That's an old wive's tale.
Actually, it's more likely to strike the same place several times- because electricity is attracted to electricity and anything struck once carries a small electric charge for years afterwards.
2006-11-10 08:20:56 · answer #6 · answered by Jennifer F 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
when I was still a little boy back in China, I had seen lighting stroked the same place twice or more, each year though.
2006-11-10 08:23:36 · answer #7 · answered by KghC_thegreatest 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The fact is that you are wrong lightning can fall on the same exact spot depending on the soil or things that could e found there.
this is a mythbuster fact .
2006-11-10 08:26:35 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It does and most of the time when you see a lightning flash you actually saw about 6 of them. It's just so fast you can't tell
2006-11-10 08:22:33 · answer #9 · answered by sedrick a 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's a farce.A man in Kansas some years ago was struck THREE times over a two year period!
2006-11-10 08:20:48 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋