Razzonater said..
residual static electricity can give you a little zap. however if you got what youd call enough to give you a tingle you need to check your heart out, seriously go to a doctors they put you on a heart monitor and it will tell you if youve been shocked/hearts running ok.
people often get zapped think nothing of it but the heart doesnt pump properly after for days. aneurhytmic rhythum or something like that. seriously get checked out you can have heart problems days later.
when i was a kid lightning came in through the window and hit the kettle, we were all standing on wood floors but you could hear buzzing after, dont know if that was me ears,head or real sound, on a moist day you can hear the powerlines buzzing. thats what the lightning heard like for me after... if ya been zapped serious go to the docs its saved peoples lives before
sparkies any further info?

GalahOnTheBay said..
18 floors up on scaffolding sounds pretty heavy to me!

Test pilot 1 said..

With electrical industry it is mandatory for all electric shocks, you go to hospital for 24 hrs observation, I've been 3 times

GreenPat said..




For electrical industry or lightning strikes?

Anyway, that's not a lightning strike, this is a lightning strike!

When I was about 15 I was walking on the veranda of the family home when lightning struck me pretty much directly. I remember hearing the thunder before seeing the flash so it must have been close - the thunder registered in my brain first even though it couldn't have happened first. Then it felt like was hit with a baseball bat in the chest and another one in each knee and elbow. Next thing I knew I was lying on the ground feeling a bit tender, but I hadn't blacked out. First thing I thought was that if I'd been hit under the shelter of the roof then potentially everyone in the house had been, so I jumped up to go and check on my younger sisters who were inside the house proper. No-one else had been hit.

That house was the highest house on the tallest hill in the shire. We got a lot of lightning strikes. I got shocked by it twice more while I lived there, once having my hand on the kitchen tap when lightning struck the ground outside, once standing in bare feet on wet tiles when it struck.

You were in "The Shire"? How were the other hobbits at the time

Test pilot 1 said...
You were in "The Shire"? How were the other hobbits at the time[8)