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Section 6.3.3

Lightning Damage Photos

Below are photos of situations, encountered by NLSI in its consulting and training work, that show damage caused by lightning.

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Lightning damage to tip of Franklin air terminal.
(Photo courtesy of Heles/U.S. Army)		 NLSI engineers discuss lightning damage (see burn mark on wall at center electrical panel) to electrical system at military defense factory in New Hampshire.
   
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Arcing (center of picture) due to failure to bond in City of Huntsville, Alabama E911 communications center. Code compliance violation at U.S. Army location in Ft. Irwin, CA.
   
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Top half of fishing pole hit by lightning. All resin has been vaporized and nothing is left but fiber that looks like cotton candy.
(Photo by Michael Fewings, www.strikeone.com.au)
   
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Newspaper article about a house struck by lightning in Malaysia. Exploding concrete was part of the damage to this house foundation caused by a lightning strike.
   
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Dead elk from a lightning strike, Mt. Evans, Colorado. Cattle struck dead by lightning.
   
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House damaged by lightning (the tree was missed). Lightning traveled along this underground metal pipe.
   
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Typical tree damage caused by lightning strike. Atypical tree damage caused by lightning strike.
   
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Signature of lightning upon Franklin lightning rod. Lightning's high temperatures caused entrained moisture to explode. (NASA shuttle landing runway, Kennedy Space Center, Florida)

 

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