Because my butt just cant take another hit like that.
2007-06-11 03:47:05 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Weather
Step away from the lightning rod...
2007-06-11 10:44:22 · answer #1 · answered by Barbara 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
False
Lightning does strike the same place twice. The Empire State Building in New York City is struck about 23 times a year, on average.
See these links.
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/slc/projects/disasters/light_stats/light_facts.html
2007-06-11 07:24:06 · answer #2 · answered by NWS Storm Spotter 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is not true that lightning never strikes the same place twice. The CN tower in Canada gets struck by lightning hundreds of times a year. The Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building, the Eiffel Tower all gets struck by lightning more than twice.
2007-06-11 14:01:14 · answer #3 · answered by zombiepirate_13 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, it is not completely true but it has truth in it. The point where lighting strike is always positively charged. Milli seconds before the bolt strikes, a positive "streamer" moves upwards from the point to the cloud base. The bolt then run down the streamer and nutralize the charge. This means that the bolts can strike at that specific point only once during a storm because it has lost now most of its positive charge.
However, if a point on earth is positively charged, but has very little conductivity, positive streamers can rise from the same point more than once allowing a bolt to travel from the cloud base to the same point again. This is possible, but not likely.
2007-06-11 05:26:48 · answer #4 · answered by The Desert Bird 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Lightening OFTEN strikes things like tall, well grounded towers. The Empire state build can be struck several times in one thunderstorm.
You won't see lightening striking something like a tree several times because the high energy will change the object being struck. Once it is destroyed, it becomes a poor conductor of electricity and therefore won't be struck again.
2007-06-11 04:58:58 · answer #5 · answered by Philip H 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
um, there is so much i can say to that its not even funny. but scientificaly it can. but it takes some time for the charged particles to leave the area of the ground where it was stricken. and it can happen sooner depending on the intensity of the storm.
2007-06-11 03:54:33 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, there are some lightning stations where they capture the electricity of the lightning, but also its just plain unlikly and low probability.
2007-06-11 03:53:48 · answer #7 · answered by jrplane13 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why haven't you checked if there isn't an alien probe in there? Those are natural lightening rods, doncha know.
2007-06-11 05:34:52 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Sweetie....... you should never have gotten the lightening bolt tattoo on your @ss then. Sheesh
Men are such wienies.
2007-06-11 03:51:57 · answer #9 · answered by Marianne not Ginger™ 7 · 4⤊ 2⤋
chances are very less.
2007-06-11 03:51:28 · answer #10 · answered by PARTHA S 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋