In the old snapcap thread,Tam posited that she had a liklihood of losing a firing pin due to failure to use a gun condom<\/strike> snap cap similar to her liklihood of getting struck by lightning. This is risible on it’s surface; because of the unpredictability of lightning it is impossible to protect against it except by staying in an area where lightning will never strike, i.e., in a gun safe or faraday cage. Snap caps don’t restrict any activity (like living in a faraday cage would) and do not change the function of the firearm in any way. Enough, this isn’t what this post is about! <\/p>\n
This post is about being hit by lightning. I have not yet been hit, but I expect to be hit, some day. Seven members of my family have been hit, and several co-workers. Most of these have been indirect hits- my sister was hit while talking on the phone, through the phone. My father was hit by a branch of lightning off a tree that was hit. Both grandfathers had been hit directly. An uncle and a few others hit indirectly. A co-worker got shocked grabbing the door handle of his car while the building he was parked next to was hit, not fifty yards from where I sit right now. <\/p>\n
All of the people in my family who have been hit by lightning cannot wear a watch, either due to oils on their skin damaging the watch, or the watch becoming magnetized while wearing it. I’m of the “magnetized’ variety- in fact the only watch I’ve ever been able to wear are the all-stainless Swiss variety. We all regularly notice streetlights going out around us, not once in a while but every single time we are in a car, at least one streetlight will burn out as we drive under. This has been happening to me for years. <\/p>\n