Originally Posted by Budster

Talking of thunder storms, one of my friends who plays golf told me he always carries a 2 Iron with him, if there is the threat of lightning.
Because “even God can’t hit a 2 Iron”
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Whilst working on Radio Stations in RSA in the 1970's we had a trip to the South African Bureau of Standards in Pretoria to see the effects of lightning strikes, they have a particularly high incidence in the Natal region around the Drakensberg Mountain range where we had a set of 4 stations.

Amongst many other exhibits we were shown a mummified and thoroughly cooked golfer with his club on the upward sweep - so you may like to warn your pal..

We had sensors on our radio stations at the base of the mast which measured the magnitude of the strike we fed this data back to the SABS as research for them.

It could take a few hours to several days to put them back online after a severe strike, interesting work in a beautiful country full of friendly tolerant people, we made some great friends out there great larger than life characters full of fun.

If you are caught outside in a storm keep your legs together and crouch down to minimise your height, keeping your legs together reduces the "step voltage" gradient across your body should you get struck. This is why you see quite a few dead cows in such conditions as the distance between their front and rear legs equates to 1.000's of volts difference which stops the brain and heart instantaneously.

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