Lightning conductors

There is not (yet) a powerful enough group of certificated lighting rod installers to lobby successfully for the law to be passed.

Continental summers, whereas the UK is a maritime climate. Although we do get lightning, it's nothing like as much or as powerful as inland on the central mass of Europe.

When success is achieved it will be known as Part Î

The reason the czech repunblic has lightning conductors is/was to protect the public address systems that every town and village had t exhort the workers to be good party members.

Imagine Gordon on every hoarding, and pictures of lusty virile commie workers and happy smiling faces, as the radio and everywhere you go plays uplifting music to exhort you to work hard and tell you how wonderful you are under Labour.

So, no change there, then.

its a ***k sight worse n tropical africa and they don't bother with conductors either.

It always hits the power lines. Or just the ground. I remember standing on a balcony watching a storm, when a thatched house got hit..and another strike hit the ground about 30 yards in front of me.

The house strike was sufficiently rare to make the papers.

The Natural Philosopher wibbled on Monday 05 July 2010 22:56

I don't recall any uplifting music. Just a grumpy policeman who says "you can't take photos here!" Sigh - we can't even do "totalitarian" right...

Now, if we'd had Yuliya Timoshenko as PM, that might have been something to look at...

Why are you wandering? Dunno. You should tell us - after all you've wandered to CZ.

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I recall lightening conductors being commonplace in England in the 1940s and 1950s. I have yet to see one in New Zealand.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Chris saying something like:

The pikeys nicked them all.

She was a complete disaster as Ukraine's PM. I'm not sure that a strange, manic and highly unpredictable woman with a piece of heavy sisal rope tied around her head is someone I would want to consider as a potential leader:

There is one in Auckland city called the Skytower. In a thunderstorm at night I can see lightning hitting the Skytower about every minute or so.

Bruce wibbled on Tuesday 06 July 2010 09:39

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Bruce saying something like:

Grimly Curmudgeon wibbled on Tuesday 06 July 2010 12:58

Definitely not paper bag territory.

It's strange stuff - we lost a small tree a couple of years ago; the lightning decided to completely ignore both the larger woodland that the tree was on the edge of, and the field on the "other side" of it.

Never seen a lightning conductor over here, either, although I can't say I've looked too hard - maybe the bigger buildings do have them.