The strike was only a few inches wide and completely straight. Could this have been a meteor? If it was infact lightening how deep would lightening stone be found?
Lightning struck pine tree.
Dec 29, 2022
Last reply: 3 years ago
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In 1975 I was living in a rent house that had a sizeable cottonwood tree in the front yard. I arrived home from work oneday to find three or four elementary school aged kids in my yard staring at and jabbering about the tree. When queried one of them excitedly described the lightening that had struck the tree. There was a 4 inch wide area of stripped bark that took a turn at one of the lower limbs whose length it traversed before jumping to the
Unk snipped-for-privacy@example.com on Thu, 29 Dec 2022
07:45:03 +0000 typed in rec.woodworking the following:Lightening does that.
not knowing what a lightening stone is, I couldn't say.
There is no 'e' in lightning.
Electrical kind yep, weight wise yes it is. Have seen examples soil vitrified by lightning, but not stones they usually pop.
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Fulgurites (from Latin fulgur 'lightning', and -ite), commonly known as "fossilized lightning", are natural tubes, clumps, or masses of sintered, vitrified, and/or fused soil, sand, rock, organic debris and other sediments that sometimes form when lightning discharges into ground.
And virtually never occur when a tree is struck.
I've seen trees turned into huge bundles of toothpicks by a lightning strike - - -
Cool.
Or is that "Zot!"
Correct! But there is an "e" in lightening. ;~)
"Paint it white"
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