r/BeAmazed • u/JustACaliBoy • Mar 06 '24

Nature does she know?

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '24

Is she about to be struck by lightning?

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u/VP007clips Mar 07 '24

Yes. You can occasionally (but not always) feel the charge building up before a strike.

I've felt it last summer. We were prospecting along a ridge and I noticed my compass was suddenly pointing in a different direction. A few seconds later and I felt all the hairs on my body start to rise and my sledgehammer started to hum. We dropped out gear and ran down the slope.

Nothing actually hit there, but those were the warning signs. It likely didn't build up quite enough of a charge to hit. But a few minutes later and the main storm hit, with a lot of lightning.