My hour long bike commute to work in Bay Area vs Patrick's thunderstorm ride in Colorado - my gut feel is that chances of me getting hit by a driver browsing Facebook on their phone is much higher than Patrick getting struck by lightning. His ride seems less risky and more fun!
>From safety standpoint both activities are better avoided or enjoyed in moderation :) On Sunday, 9 July 2017 14:41:36 UTC-7, Mojo wrote: > > Patrick, > > I hope you will reconsider your behavior during thunderstorms. The facts > don't support your lackadaisical view of lightning. > http://www.lightningsafety.noaa.gov/ > Lightning is the number one weather related killer in Colorado. Even when > folks are not killed by a lightning strike, it can alter and diminish the > remainder of their life. > http://www.lightningsafety.com/nlsi_lls/fatalities_us.html > Living at 9000ft, your risk of lightning strike is enhanced over the > Colorado state average. > > Lightning is NOT at all predictable where it will strike. As a NWS > forecaster giving presentations on the subject, I used to say "lightning is > very powerful but very lazy." It will always find the easiest path to > discharge. Yes the probabilities are greatest for higher elevations during > the afternoon hours, but that doesn't mean probabilities are zero for lower > elevations during the morning or evening. > > Be safe out there! > Joe in GJT > > On Sunday, July 9, 2017 at 2:15:29 PM UTC-6, Deacon Patrick wrote: > >> Ha, George! If I followed that advice I'd not go on rides from April >> through September. Grin. Fortunately, lightening is predictable in what it >> like to hit. Stay low 'cause it likes to aim high. Don't straddle anything >> steel, er, because it is attracted to conductiv ... ZAP! CRACK! CRISP! Grin. >> >> With abandon, >> Patrick >> >> On Sunday, July 9, 2017 at 1:27:06 PM UTC-6, George Schick wrote: >>> >>> Long as you're not out in it during one of those thunderstorms, that is. >>> Lightning, especially at those altitudes, can be very lethal and it can >>> strike a long way from where the storm appears to be. >>> >>> >>> On Sunday, July 9, 2017 at 1:45:03 PM UTC-5, Deacon Patrick wrote: >>>> >>>> Yesterday was hot for around here. 84˚F at 9,000 feet. Riding home the >>>> thunderclouds that had been building since noon broke loose. Unlike most >>>> storms, this one didn’t drop the temperature into the 40’s or 50’s. It >>>> stayed in the upper 70’s. I left my rain jacket in my bag and delighted in >>>> the wet soaking my cotton shirt, cooling me off. Combined with the >>>> delicious scents of rain, ozone, flashing lightening and rumbling thunder >>>> coming down and mixing with earth, sage, flowers, pine, and aspen, it was >>>> a >>>> veritable feast. >>>> >>>> This morning, the sun was out, the ground moist and pocked , fresh and >>>> giving off the smell of summer loam of long decay, pine, and growth in the >>>> warmth. Pockets of air still cool from the moist night air tantalized as >>>> at >>>> rode through them, lingering by slowing my pedaling. >>>> >>>> After weeks of hot and dusty grit, these two rides were spectacularly >>>> refreshing. >>>> >>>> With abandon, >>>> Patrick >>>> >>>> www.CredoFamily.org >>>> www.MindYourHeadCoop.org >>>> >>>> >>>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
