What would you do?

**hunter63** · 04-30-2015, 08:28 PM

Surviving lightning storms?........

Carry a #1 iron?....... even God can't hit a #1 iron.....

Per L. Trevino

**7whitewolf7** · 04-30-2015, 10:46 PM

Speaking about the unlikely hood of getting struck by lightening I have a storm story to tell!
To be honest the possiblity was so low it did not factor to me, I live in one of the major cities of Texas and during a lightening storm (bear in mind I was and am young) I climbed a tree (it was by itself between two Apartment Complex's and was not the tallest thing around by far) to the top where it's branches swayed in the wind. It was Glorious! I wonder if you get where I'm going, but anyway as I'm sitting in the tree grinning like an idiot at the rain there's just this sudden white in front of me as if I'd out a piece of paper in front of my face and then a horrible sound. I had a quick epiphany as the light faded and looking down saw that the fork of the tree (near the base) had been struck and in fact there were tiny flames around it.
I did the smart thing and started scrambling down as fast as I could heart pounding but then I heard this cracking sound and I tried to go faster but the tree started falling with me still in the upper branches. It was going down and a jostling made my grip slip so I was only holding on by my hands, by now the tree is down and I'm still hanging on but when I look down I see that the ground is just a few inches below me. I'm shaking and simply blown away by all of this and I just let go... landing without a scratch on me from the whole thing and then I just walk home dripping wet. When I get there my father asked me if I'd done anything interesting but I just looked at him and said Nothing Much... Then went and fell asleep
True Story.... and he still has no idea.

**Rick** · 05-01-2015, 07:18 AM

Ah the dreams of the young.

**hunter63** · 05-01-2015, 12:54 PM

Wow, That's quite a story.......Good thing you didn't get hurt.

**Wildthang** · 05-05-2015, 05:22 PM

I had a girlfriend once that got very amorous when it stormed with lots of lightning. She was one of those girls that you couldn't resist but you couldn't trust either, remember those?
So one day while I was at work it came one of those Oklahoma thunder booming lightning storms, and I thought, I wonder what is going to happen at my place with me not being there, and this storm going on! Something told me that I should at least go check!
So I parked a couple of blocks away and walked up as close to the house and I could without being seen, and crouched down behind and old truck I had parked at the tree line.
The storm was brewing and the lightning was cracking all over the place when out of the house she came with her arm around some guy I didn't even know. I just hung my head and pulled my knife and started whittling on a stick and realized that I had just seen the most aweful moment of my life right before my eyes, my new carbon steel fixed blade knife was rusting! OMG I was devastated!!!!!!

**hunter63** · 05-05-2015, 06:06 PM

Dang, don't you just hate rust on your knife........Sad story.

**7whitewolf7** · 05-05-2015, 09:14 PM

What's the oldest (or most rusted) blade you've tried to sand?

I found an old stylized "Egyptian" blade, thick but heavily rusted and I had no idea what I was doing when I borrowed a sandstone to try to take it off. Ironically later I took it out (only tool I had at hand) to go dig a hole for a small animal burial and the dirt was slightly sandish, mixed with hard spots of clay. It did a better job then I had.

**crashdive123** · 05-06-2015, 06:09 AM

I've taken rust like this.....

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.....and ended up with this.

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**Tokwan** · 05-08-2015, 09:38 AM

I do advice or teach to find an open spac e, then roll yourself like a ball and ride it out...bt that depends if its day time...at night, u can get hurt or get killed stumbling around the Rainforest..I would simply ride it out and take my chances.