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Postby assateague » Fri Jun 22, 2012 1:28 pm

I know you climb radio towers, so will assume you know a little about lightning. Question: can lightning make the jump via wifi bandwidth to a computer/my lap? It's only about 2 feet at the moment, but if the answer is yes, I probably need to go downstairs away from this router.
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Re: Hey Coastie

Postby Olly » Fri Jun 22, 2012 1:48 pm

assateague wrote:I know you climb radio towers, so will assume you know a little about lightning. Question: can lightning make the jump via wifi bandwidth to a computer/my lap? It's only about 2 feet at the moment, but if the answer is yes, I probably need to go downstairs away from this router.


No, if lighting strikes your house it's going to find the easiest way to ground. Worst you have to worry about is a fried router.

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Re: Hey Coastie

Postby Bufflehead » Fri Jun 22, 2012 1:50 pm

no. however, it could come through your roof and strike you on the top of your head, travel through your fingers and destroy the computer


lightning travels throught the path of least resistance.
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Re: Hey Coastie

Postby Bufflehead » Fri Jun 22, 2012 1:51 pm

Olly wrote:
assateague wrote:I know you climb radio towers, so will assume you know a little about lightning. Question: can lightning make the jump via wifi bandwidth to a computer/my lap? It's only about 2 feet at the moment, but if the answer is yes, I probably need to go downstairs away from this router.


No, if lighting strikes your house it's going to find the easiest way to ground. Worst you have to worry about is a fried router.

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typing at same time :lol:
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Re: Hey Coastie

Postby assateague » Fri Jun 22, 2012 2:20 pm

Olly wrote:
assateague wrote:I know you climb radio towers, so will assume you know a little about lightning. Question: can lightning make the jump via wifi bandwidth to a computer/my lap? It's only about 2 feet at the moment, but if the answer is yes, I probably need to go downstairs away from this router.


No, if lighting strikes your house it's going to find the easiest way to ground. Worst you have to worry about is a fried router.

Sent from your honey hole.

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Re: Hey Coastie

Postby Goldfish » Fri Jun 22, 2012 5:30 pm

Bufflehead wrote:no. however, it could come through your roof and strike you on the top of your head, travel through your fingers and destroy the computer


lightning travels throught the path of least resistance.


Are you saying there is not a lot of resistance in Assa's head?
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Re: Hey Coastie

Postby 3legged_lab » Fri Jun 22, 2012 5:48 pm

So, hows the weather out your way Assa?
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Postby assateague » Fri Jun 22, 2012 9:47 pm

Hot and humid. Thunderstorms. 97 yesterday, 94 today, but heat index of 103 both days. Humidity is miserable, but I'll take it over cold any day.
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Re: Hey Coastie

Postby duckkillerclyde » Fri Jun 22, 2012 10:14 pm

We might have hit 65 today.
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Postby assateague » Fri Jun 22, 2012 10:24 pm

We'll hit 65 again sometime around September 20th.
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Re: Hey Coastie

Postby duckkillerclyde » Fri Jun 22, 2012 10:33 pm

assateague wrote:We'll hit 65 again sometime around September 20th.



what parallel do you line up with?
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Postby assateague » Sat Jun 23, 2012 9:05 am

Good question. Let me check.

38th. But we're at 6' above sea level, 12 miles from the ocean, and 30 miles from the Chesapeake, so it's always humid as all get out. Swamps abound.
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Re: Hey Coastie

Postby jehler » Sat Jun 23, 2012 9:28 am

duckkillerclyde wrote:
assateague wrote:We'll hit 65 again sometime around September 20th.



what parallel do you line up with?

im on the 45th but our weather is closer to assa's than yours clyde. you guys got that pacific current thing keeping you steady
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Re: Hey Coastie

Postby Bufflehead » Sat Jun 23, 2012 10:50 am

talk about humid, i'm on a island that is one to two miles wide. it's freaking miserable here the last few days.
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Re: Hey Coastie

Postby QH's Paw » Sat Jun 23, 2012 3:40 pm

53 degrees and raining.......since yesterday.

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Re: Hey Coastie

Postby Olly » Sat Jun 23, 2012 4:39 pm

It's supposed to storm later tonight, I hope it holds off. I had plans to go frog gigging tonight.
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Postby jehler » Sat Jun 23, 2012 4:43 pm

Olly wrote:It's supposed to storm later tonight, I hope it holds off. I had plans to go frog gigging tonight.

we'll be carp gigging, it doesn't rain on me.
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Re: Hey Coastie

Postby Bufflehead » Sat Jun 23, 2012 5:15 pm

we just had a bad storm come through. first rain we've had in a couple weeks. usualyin the summer we get afternoon storms 3-4 times a week
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Re: Hey Coastie

Postby duckkillerclyde » Sat Jun 23, 2012 5:20 pm

the sun came out finally here. We usually get rain this time of year but it will be done except for a few days here and there until mid to late october.

WE will get about 5 days sometimes as many as ten a year were we hit 100 sometimes as high as 105 but not too often.

typically upper 70's to mid 80's. 90's for a week is about the extreme. although low 90's are pretty common too.


this is where QH and I live.


You hit the east side of the state and it's a lot hotter like where 3leg lives.
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Postby Flightstopper » Sat Jun 23, 2012 5:55 pm

105 down here right now standing in a calechie (sp?) pit
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Re: Hey Coastie

Postby duckkillerclyde » Sat Jun 23, 2012 6:01 pm

caliche
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Re: Hey Coastie

Postby QH's Paw » Sat Jun 23, 2012 8:51 pm

change in the weather. I stepped out on the porch to shoot the bow and this is what I saw.
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Maybe I should go get some beer and charcoal before it's gone. Supposed to rain more in the morning and then the sun will be here for a couple days. At least that is what they say.
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Postby Flightstopper » Sun Jun 24, 2012 9:37 am

duckkillerclyde wrote:caliche


Thanks, heat must be frying my brain
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Postby assateague » Sun Jun 24, 2012 11:09 am

Spanish for "red concrete".
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Postby Flightstopper » Sun Jun 24, 2012 12:59 pm

assateague wrote:Spanish for "red concrete".


But it's white
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Re: Hey Coastie

Postby assateague » Sun Jun 24, 2012 11:27 pm

Flightstopper wrote:
assateague wrote:Spanish for "red concrete".


But it's white


Ah. The stuff in AZ is red. I was making it up, anyway, but that crap is crazy hard.
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Postby Flightstopper » Mon Jun 25, 2012 6:15 am

assateague wrote:
Flightstopper wrote:
assateague wrote:Spanish for "red concrete".


But it's white


Ah. The stuff in AZ is red. I was making it up, anyway, but that crap is crazy hard.


That makes sense, still sounded legit for how much espanol I know :lol:
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