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They do work quite well.  I have a very high antenna that must be at least 
30 feet high, from the ground up. You can climb it. The previous owner who 
built our house was into CB big time; I think he talked with Australia from 
here.  Anyway, that thing, which sits right outside my computer room gets 
hit all the time by lightning.  I can see it "radiate" from the window when 
this happens.  Talk about one heart stopping experience.

It's funny listening to Truman talk about low spots since, in Florida, 
everyplace is in a low spot.  There's nothing higher except for trees and 
manmade contraptions.  My CB antenna is my lightning rod and it gets hit 
more often than Truman's old barn.

Down here lightning can hit you anywhere, even inside your house.  We can't 
really build basements here, which kind of sucks, because, if we could, I'd 
have one for sure.  When it comes to the rath of these storms there's no 
place that gets hit more often than Central Florida.  And, the sad thing is, 
there's no basement to hide out in.  We're all fair game, including the 
horses.  Since my barn's never been hit, that's where they stay when these 
life taking storms are a brewing.

cya,
Howard (those mountains are a calling me)


> From: "Libby & Quentin Llop DVM" <qhll@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: <qhll@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Truman Prevatt" <tprevatt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,"Howard Bramhall" 
> <howard9732@xxxxxxx>
> CC: <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: RE: [RC]   [RC] That Time of Year.....again!
> Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 15:16:50 -0400
>
> What about lightning rods?  I've seen my neighbors barn that has rods get
> struck quite a few times, no harm done. The highest point around our house
> and barns is a pine tree with an old CB antennae ground. So far it has 
> drawn
> all the strikes. Years ago I lost 7 sheep when an old maple tree the flock
> was huddled under was struck. The lightning jumped to the woven wire fence
> and burned lush grass to the ground for a hundred yards. I've often 
> wondered
> if I should put a lightning rod on the tree in the pastures that the horses
> want to shelter under.   Libby
>   -----Original Message-----
>   From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Truman Prevatt
>   Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 2:33 PM
>   To: Howard Bramhall
>   Cc: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>   Subject: Re: [RC] [RC] That Time of Year.....again!
>
>
>   There have been instances where lightining stuck the barn and wiped out
> several horses with one strike. The best in lightining is be low and not
> under a solitary tree. If the barn is the highest point it may not be the
> best place to be. When I was a kid we had a hay barn on the farm smoked
> twice by lightining. We built it back after the first time. Eight years
> later it got smoked again. We decided that mother nature had other plans 
> for
> that patch of ground and rebuilt it someplace else.
>
>   Truman
>
>   Howard Bramhall wrote:
>
>     I try and look at it as where I would want to be given the current
> weather conditions.  When it comes to thunderstorms, I prefer to be inside
> some sort of shelter.  And, since I'm fortunate to have a barn that's still
> standing, that's where I put all of my horses.  I've seen too many horses
> struck by lightning down here while standing around out in the pasture 
> under
> a tree.  Sometimes one bolt will get two of them at once because they're 
> out
> there snuggling, protecting each other from the wind and the rain.
>
>     When it comes to the hurricanes (yes, it will soon be that wonderful
> time of year again), if it's bearing down on my neck of the woods, I choose
> to be out of town.  And, I'll take my guys with me even if it means making 
> a
> couple of trips to a safer area.
>
>     If you think it's better for them to be outside during a horrific 
> storm,
> picture yourself standing there next to them.  Then, think of the barn, 
> and,
> if you'd feel safer inside the barn than outside in your field, that's 
> where
> you might want to put your horses.  Think of where you'd like to be in that
> situation and I bet you make the best choice possible.
>
>     cya,
>     Howard
>
>
>
>   We imitate our masters only because we are not yet masters ourselves, 
> and
> only
>
>   because in doing so we learn the truth about what cannot be imitated.
>
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I can tell you after sleeping in a tent, then in my truck, then in the back
of a trailer, then in a gneck trailer w/no LQ, and now in the new-to-me LQ
one, you don't sleep any better the night before in nicer digs - you're
just more comfortable while you're lying there obsessing :)
~  Tina Hicks

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