tony.latham wrote:Just back from our annual detail on a lookout in the middle of the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness.
Awesome views! Is there a stool with insulated legs to sit on during a lightning storm?
Bruce
tony.latham wrote:Just back from our annual detail on a lookout in the middle of the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness.
bdosborn wrote:tony.latham wrote:Just back from our annual detail on a lookout in the middle of the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness.
Awesome views! Is there a stool with insulated legs to sit on during a lightning storm?
Bruce
Is there a stool with insulated legs to sit on during a lightning storm?
Are there cases reported of fire watchers being struck by lightning?
tony.latham wrote:Just back from our annual detail on a lookout in the middle of the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness.
No lightning, so no new fires. Bummer.
Tony
No lightning, so no new fires.
Bummer.
You sound like my noobie cadet on his first truck out of the fire house..
bdosborn wrote:tony.latham wrote:Just back from our annual detail on a lookout in the middle of the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness.
Awesome views! Is there a stool with insulated legs to sit on during a lightning storm?
Bruce
tony.latham wrote:The lookout was built in 1947. It's heavily grounded with several runs of 3/8" copper wire. I don't know how many times it's been struck by lightning but in all those years, it's been struck, a lot. We took over from a guy that's been staffing this lookout for 51 years and has been inside when it's been hit several times. When we took over from him last year, the night before the shutter bolts were lit with St. Elmo's fire from the static during a storm.
tony.latham wrote:I really want to be inside when it gets struck. (Weird, eh?)
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