Re: EMP blast - what would happen really?


w_tom wrote:
You see 'every' tree struck by lightning - or one in one hundred
whose sugars exploded when struck by lightning? Most all trees struck
by lightning leave almost no indication as demonstrated by the US
Forestry Service study. Just because you saw symtpoms of an exception,
that makes the exception the norm? Too many do this to promote junk
science reasoning. Most all trees struck by lightning have no
appreciable indication.

Jim Yanik wrote:
Uh,I see a lot of trees struck by lightning here in central Florida,and
they usually have a trail of bark blown off them where the bolt travels
down to ground.Later,the tree dies.

Do you have a link to the Forest Service study.

My experience with lightning-struck trees is limited, but I do recall a
pine tree that exploded about halfway down the trunk and scattered wood
debris over a large area. I was in a building across a parking lot
from the strike looking out a window.

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