lightning strike...

[1FinickyOne]

A good sized tree in my yard was struck by lightening - left quite a gash and now a few weeks later, the tree is dead...

 

can lightning kill a tree?

[Bobtheblob]

Yes best to cut it down its dead am afraid had it happen to me years ago. 

[pgrahmm]

Yes, I've seen a couple of huge trees that had been split by lightning - half lived & the other half blackened & died ....

[473geo]

Lighting punched a hole in our rice barn roof 

[1FinickyOne]

55 minutes ago, 473geo said:

Lighting punched a hole in our rice barn roof 

Is it dead? Will the leaves grow back?

[GammaGlobulin]

Lightning Over SE Asia from the ISS ....  Enjoy!

 

 

[473geo]

16 hours ago, 1FinickyOne said:

Is it dead? Will the leaves grow back?

As you can see the wood is scorched, fortunately dead already, suffered no pain, no chance of resuscitation, or turning over a new leaf ????

[StreetCowboy]

On 8/16/2022 at 3:17 PM, 473geo said:

As you can see the wood is scorched, fortunately dead already, suffered no pain, no chance of resuscitation, or turning over a new leaf ????

I might still be able to find a great video of lightning landing near our depot, in approximately the same space twice within a few seconds, each strike lasting a significant fraction of a second.

Here, lightning deaths are almost exclusively male - mainly golfers, and construction workers in buildings where the earthing is not complete.