Storm Demons!

**slofox** · 29th September 2009, 14:19

Hey, shit, we got storm demons! Friggin power just about died with the third lightning flash...lit the whole of the inside of the shop up like a roman candle...flash and boom are milliseconds apart - must be right overhead. And the rain is somewhat heavy as well...

Glad I got me ride in this morning....

**Leyton** · 29th September 2009, 14:24

Hehe yeah I got about 40km of riding in this morning too

Its PISSING Down!!!

**slofox** · 29th September 2009, 14:29

Originally Posted by Leyton

Hehe yeah I got about 40km of riding in this morning too

Its PISSING Down!!!

I did 102km...

...in HALF AN HOUR...plus a bit...more...

**vifferman** · 29th September 2009, 14:34

Originally Posted by slofox

...flash and boom are milliseconds apart - must be right overhead.

That's not good.

That happened at home a while back - fried our alarm and TV, due to the EMF pulse. Scored a new! Improved!! alarm system from it (insurance), but I didn't twig that the TV was damaged (even though the colour and sound went funny) and missed out on claiming on it. Cost me $1600...

**slofox** · 29th September 2009, 14:39

It's gone now...

Some years ago the linesmen moved our power pole (three phase power). They cross phased it when they hooked 'er back up. Blew nearly every appliance in the entire street...cost the company gazillions of dollars and their repair contract...

Once a truck with a hut on the back came up the road, snagged the three phase lines across the road and dropped them onto the telephone wires...my original cordless phone base unit exploded off the wall in a shower of sparks and smoke...now THAT was worth watching...(phone was fucked after that funnily enough...)

**klingon** · 29th September 2009, 14:41

Originally Posted by vifferman

That's not good.

That happened at home a while back - fried our alarm and TV, due to the EMF pulse. Scored a new! Improved!! alarm system from it (insurance), but I didn't twig that the TV was damaged (even though the colour and sound went funny) and missed out on claiming on it. Cost me $1600...

Yes - unplug everything you can when the lightning is nearby! Friends had their phone/fax go kaboom! and melted their wiring. Almost set fire to the house!

Years ago my Mum was working at a manual telephone exchange and had her headset on when the line was struck. Threw her clear across the room. I've also heard of someone getting a badly burned ear when their phone melted during an electrical storm.

**Leyton** · 29th September 2009, 14:47

Originally Posted by slofox

I did 102km...

...in HALF AN HOUR...plus a bit...more...

I had Waikato Yamaha set my front fork rebound to 15 clicks, and Fark! what a difference. My bike now respects me and does not want to kill me.. I am going to have to get used to the new setting! hehe, I do not expect smooth corners and it unsettles me, I am used to the bike cornering like a real agressive pig.

**klingon** · 29th September 2009, 14:50

Originally Posted by slofox

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Some years ago the linesmen moved our power pole (three phase power). They cross phased it when they hooked 'er back up...

My brother and his two little girls were visiting the other day (four year old twins). We live near a railway crossing and the signal was malfuntioning. At one stage the alarm was going when there was no train, and later there was a train but the signals didn't work.

Little Ollie said to her Dad, "Daddy I think when they built those lights they must have attached a wire to the wrong colour other wire. Maybe they didn't know you should always attach the yellow wire to the other yellow wire."

This is extra funny because my brother is a home handy-man but he is also a tetraplegic, so he is in a wheelchair and has no fine movement in his fingers - so there is no way Ollie has ever seen him wire anything up. I have been imagining him working on his house wiring with a four-year-old assistant.

Calling up into the ceiling space, "Ollie, make sure you attach the same coloured wires together!"

**slofox** · 29th September 2009, 15:23

Originally Posted by klingon

My brother and his two little girls were visiting the other day (four year old twins). We live near a railway crossing and the signal was malfuntioning. At one stage the alarm was going when there was no train, and later there was a train but the signals didn't work.

Little Ollie said to her Dad, "Daddy I think when they built those lights they must have attached a wire to the wrong colour other wire. Maybe they didn't know you should always attach the yellow wire to the other yellow wire."

This is extra funny because my brother is a home handy-man but he is also a tetraplegic, so he is in a wheelchair and has no fine movement in his fingers - so there is no way Ollie has ever seen him wire anything up. I have been imagining him working on his house wiring with a four-year-old assistant.

Calling up into the ceiling space, "Ollie, make sure you attach the same coloured wires together!"

I don't think I knew that at four years of age...