Rain!

Coupla drops in Struggletown.

Had a nice little drop of rain and I mean little drop, didn’t have time to grab the camera for a snapshot though.

Yep, but the lighting strike would frighten the bejesus out of you, and that fright May send you into shock.

Wouldn’t the car form a Faraday Cage and direct the lightning into the ground?

One for the Physics students.

If the car has one of those earthing straps then it would become a potential strike.

How would that be possible – unless the driver was getting in or out of the car at the time?

driving a mini moke? arm out the window, resting down the door? surfing on the roof? (was it a pizza delivery vehicle?)

When will proper rain come back to Canberra. I;m getting tire of 10 flooding downpours, and thats it. A couple of days every month of steady rain is what we need FFS!

As for the lightning, the thought of a dude getting struck by lightning in his car (not possible as far as I am aware – sounds more like a poor joke), reminds me of the bloke who got struck by lightning 9 times in the “Benjamin Button”. Haha, bloody hilarious!

wishuwell said :

Report on 666 of a lightning strike on a car. Driver taken to hospital suffering from um err shock.

How would that be possible – unless the driver was getting in or out of the car at the time?

Yeah but that 5 minute deluge in Tuggers has most likely refilled my tank, and I can water my eriostimens again!

Report on 666 of a lightning strike on a car. Driver taken to hospital suffering from um err shock.

storms are useless in drought. They’re better than nothing, but storms are localised, brief, feirce and the water runs off and runs away.

do no be fooled by teh odd storm into thinking the drought’s over. If anything, it’s worse.

Tuggers got a heavy 5 minute deluge…

Ah, finally!

Have now several hundred drops simultaneously!

had 2 showers in lyneham, the second heavy enough to make the gutter overflow for a couple of minutes, but now all gone again. keep coming rain!

Had three drops outside my Deakin window, all of which have now dried up without any significant outpouring of heavenly liquid despite increasingly loud clapping of thunder…

we have some pretty good rain here in barton, FINALLY!

Crap – flooding at my place again 🙁 but sweet at the same time – my garden will be happy!

Over here we got three drops then the sun came out again. Major fizzer.