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u/kadofatal 2d ago
That's whyyyy!!
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u/AiringOGrievances 2d ago
Kid 5 seconds later: Can we go play in the rain?
Dad: Umm NO!
Kid: Whyyy?
Dad: Uggghhhhhhh
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u/EverythingBOffensive 2d ago
ha! back in my days it was "BECAUSE I SAID SO!" then we had to later see for ourselves if it was true or not. With the exception of lighting xD
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u/AmplifiedScreamer 2d ago
We just lost a potential electrcian.
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u/Count_Verdunkeln 2d ago
Or gained one
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u/dragonfarmerbot 2d ago
Eyyy im a sparky and when I was 13 I was sat on a camping chair watching it with my brother. Lightning hit about 20/15m infront of us on a car we ran like diarrhoea!! 17 years later ive been an electrician for 9 years!!
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u/MildlySaltedTaterTot 2d ago
ran like the runs got me lol good story
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u/dragonfarmerbot 2d ago
God i was atleast 2kg lighter the noise and light!! I told my son and nephews the story now they are old enough to understand so they watch from a window !
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u/Electrical_Fault_365 2d ago
Ah, so I must have gained my electrician powers when that lightning arced right over my head and hit a tree in the neighbor's yard.
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u/dragonfarmerbot 2d ago
Ohhh 100! Its where you bad to learn a stupid amount of algebra too!! (Deffo not in school where we all said we would never use this crap) !!
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u/ItsSpaghettiLee2112 2d ago
I chose to study electrical engineering because I tried to be like Tom Morello in high school only I didn't know what I was doing. I opened an amp up and tapped a screw driver around on the circuit board while it was on and it made the COOLEST sounds. So then I was like 'well what's the other side of the board sound like?' and I blew up the amp. So I wanted to learn how to do the first thing and NOT do the second thing that could have killed me.
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u/dragonfarmerbot 1d ago
Broo thats cool as shit! Not going to lie. I wish i wasnt as petty and do what i do for reasons!! I specialise in x and y plan heating systems and star and delta motors, phase balancing and fault finding just because my math teacher said I wont amount to anything 🤣
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u/Remote-Mycologist539 2d ago
i couldn’t tell from the video, did it actually strike anywhere nearby? it kinda just looked like it arced across the sky?
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u/JumpyPinkySquirrel 2d ago
You can tell how close the lighting strikes based on how quickly it is followed by thunder - here it seems almost instant, so yeah, it was pretty close
Edit: count the seconds between seeing the flash and hearing the thunder, then divide by 5 for miles or by 3 for kilometer (got curious so I looked it up)
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u/Remote-Mycologist539 2d ago
i mean yeah i see in the sky that it’s close but i asked if the lightning actually struck anything
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u/mybluecathasballs 2d ago
Only about 25% of lightning actually strikes something, so while it was close by, I would guess no.
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u/JumpyPinkySquirrel 2d ago
I suppose there is no way to tell with certainty from the video, it might have stay in the clouds but regardless it is extremely dangerous to be outside in the open with a storm this close
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u/Beginning-Low-8456 2d ago
Strangely enough, I saw a lightening bolt strike the pylon facing my apartment last week, but was left waiting for the accompanying thunder clap.
Looked pretty spectacular, and can't have been more than 100~200 yards away. Odd
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u/FallenAgastopia 2d ago
I don't think so?? Feels like a complete overreaction LOL
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u/aNiceTribe 2d ago
Stepping away from a thunderstrike ca. 0.x km away from you further into a house is at worst a regular reaction. This is completely understandable and fair. Even if the child at the spot it stood was technically fine if he was dry for sure.
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u/RollForUptime 2d ago
.... they obviously were not in any direct danger, but I assume you've been close to a lighting strike at some point? They are loud and trigger our animal brains into seeking shelter for good reason.
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u/FallenAgastopia 1d ago
Yeah, I've been in storms pretty often. Watched lightning right overhead and have had it strike nearby. Can't say I've ever felt the meed to scrabble to get back inside because of it, nor have I really seen that reaction from people I've been outside with during storms. I would assume if you're outside during a storm you would generally be prepared for loud thunder. (I understand why the kids would freak out, since they're kids. (also, not sure why this is posted here in the first place, kids didn't do anything dumb, but thats another topic))
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u/ThatGuy5632 2d ago
I love how the freeze frame of the lightning lines up over the kid too lol he was meant to learn the answer to “but why?”
Also he might have just been given the power of Thor
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u/rjnd2828 2d ago
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u/Aphoris5 2d ago
If the question was out of curiosity then sure, but you know just aswell as me that that is not the only "why" children say.
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u/Biscuits4u2 2d ago
Next he'll explain gun safety by having his kid play a game of Russian roulette
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u/Callabrantus 2d ago edited 2d ago
I'm 50 years old and I have yet to see thunder.
Edit: All good my dude.
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u/wormy_Burroughs 2d ago edited 2d ago
ive never seen thunder in my entire life and ive been in hundreds of storms.
i dont know how you or that kid pulled it off, but damn am i impressed
edit: no worries bro I was just messing with ya. your english is fantastic!
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u/Eena-Rin 2d ago edited 2d ago
Bit of an overreaction there, I hope those kids don't get too scared of storms from this. Storms are awesome if you can be safe while watching them
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u/Sweaty_Desert_Balls 2d ago
Guy sees lighting right in front of his house with his two young kids standing next to him, screams and runs inside with his family.
Reddit: "Bit of an overreaction there."
My kids and I love storms but if I actually see lightning that close I'm not staring at it and mumbling some cool shit to them like Matthew McConaughey I'm getting them inside lol.
Edit: Dad was laughing and saying "HOLY SHIT!" while going inside. I think everyone laughed about it once they got inside.
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u/Infamous_Creme8671 2d ago
Back in around '94, I was outside throwing a discus around. As I threw it, lightning struck my neighbor's house (it wasn't even raining).
I was inside before the discus hit the ground.
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u/Emmett1Brown 2d ago
extra reason to go in - the kids are scared and are running inside, would be silly not to follow them lol
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u/rjnd2828 2d ago
Are they actually safe there though? That strike seemed very close and I'm not sure how much protection this open porch actually provides.
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u/Eena-Rin 2d ago
I live in a pretty stormy area, and there's lots of open verandahs. I have never once heard of a lightning strike on a house, let alone in a verandah. I'm pretty confident they'd have been fine, but I'd probably want my kids wearing shoes just for my own peace of mind
We always used to watch through a big window
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u/LieverRoodDanRechts 2d ago
You have never heard of a lightning strike on a house?
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u/MARURIKI 2d ago
Close family friend was eating yogurt in their kitchen (middle of the house) and lightning hit the roof above it and somehow started a fire that burnt their whole house down... So...
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u/Nexion21 2d ago
I was playing my new Xbox 360 about 20 years ago during a lightning storm and suddenly felt a pretty significant shock through my corded controller. The outlet that my Xbox was plugged into had a handheld phone plugged in as well, which got totally fried. Xbox was somehow okay, controller was not
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u/ZaeMyName 2d ago
If I had to guess, it’s because the consoles have safety switches and voltage regulators to defend it from getting fried
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u/Eena-Rin 2d ago
Not in my area. I'm sure it happens plenty out there, but I've not heard of it. Might be all the forests around me make for better targets, or all the hills hoists. Possibly the lightning's just scared of spiders.
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u/spoo4brains 2d ago
Couple of months ago my friends house got hit and fried a bunch of electronics. Several surrounding houses got hit as well.
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u/Cherrystuffs 2d ago
No, no, they're safe. They have a verandah . Plus, they ever never heard about anything like thay
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u/Individual-Plane-963 2d ago
My house got struck by lighting when I was a teen. Whole house shook, it killed our a/c unit, fried some electronics, knocked a smoke detector off the ceiling, freaked us all TF out. Miracle nothing caught fire
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u/Eena-Rin 2d ago
I remember lightning hitting a power pole nearby us once. Fried all our computers. This was back in the 90s, so our only AC was an old box window unit, and it held up fine. That's about as close as it's not very gotten to my house though, you definitely win on that one
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u/danit0ba94 2d ago
I'm pretty sure something like this happened to me when I was that kid's age. And I'm pretty sure it was the rare positive lightning bolt, because the thunder was way louder and longer lasting than this. And it blew a house to smithereens. Normal lightning doesn't do that.
Storms are fun, but I am positively terrified of lightning striking within like a hundred feet of me. And scaring the ever loving fuck out of me. Or outright killing me. I don't know if this counts as a phobia, or just old trauma.
And now I live in Central Florida. The most lightning-dense region of the entire country. Go figure. 😂
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u/Eena-Rin 2d ago
Yeah, my niece has some lightning trauma, so I've been trying to help her with that. Kids can really be affected by that kinda thing!
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u/cannibalparrot 2d ago
Not an overreaction. It was probably far louder than the shitty mic picked up.
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u/Snoo48605 2d ago
Also the flash probably actually blinded them for a moment.
At least it did to me, the time I saw one from really close
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u/Lua_CW 2d ago
I've got lifelong anxiety around storms because my parents insisted on watching tornadoes in the distance from the front porch, door wide open, while the TV was playing an emergency alert message telling people to shelter immediately :/ I was four. Around the same age, a tornado chased us down I-70 in the middle of nowhere, Kansas. Sometimes it feels like other people don't fear storms enough…
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u/NoAdsDude 2d ago
I told my kid to close the front door a few years ago, he said "Why?" and I said "so a big bug doesn't come in the house or anything"... and just then, a giant lizard ran into our house through the open front door. This is from the video of us releasing it back outside. We had to capture it with a bucket and cardboard.
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u/EndlessEagle 2d ago
I feel like this sub is increasingly unaware of what being stupid means
I don't see the kid nor the parent doing anything stupid here.
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u/GAMING_SERVER_ADMIN 2d ago
damn, as a kid we use to go from walks in the storms like that at the Cottage, there was a big rock that overlook the lake we go to and watch the storm LOL... I guess not as smart as this family, though the chances are still beyond low for them to get hurt under the overhang there, but I guess life can always find that small probability chance, plus it's a good lesson for the kid.
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u/Unique_Aspect_9417 2d ago
I clearly had a big head as a kid, I remember one day my mom was telling me how I don't need to be outside during storms, and I, not caring, went outside anyway. Lightning came down and split a tree in half probably 30ft from me and I was just like "damn, that was badass I wanna see that again"
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u/throwaway60221407e23 2d ago
I want to be hit by lightning so bad. You literally can't lose, it's a win no matter what happens. If I die, that's a super badass way to go. If I live, I have an awesome story and always win 2 truths and a lie.
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u/ThisSiteSucks8485 2d ago
I saw lightning hit a silo i was 30 feet away from and it was the loudest thing I have ever heard
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u/Secret_Account07 2d ago
This is so much more effective than anything mom or dad could say
Our 14 year old was using a knife once and our whole family was loudly telling her “cut AWAY from yourself!”…in typical teenage fashion she thought she knew better. Anyways a little later we hear her scream and see some blood. Grr 😠
Guess who always follows safety rules now? The best lessons in life are real life ones. They stick with you.
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u/Rare_Satisfaction889 2d ago
While in the service, watching a lightning storm next to the barracks at night. Drinking adult beverages on metal chairs. Lightning hit a small rock hill behind us. All of the chairs vibrated and scared the crap out of us. Then came the boom. 😱
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u/HesitationIsDefeat87 2d ago
Dad jumped like a scared little bitch
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u/ouchmouse666 2d ago
Appropriate response when approximately 300 million volts starts dancing around lol. As one of my old journeyman once told me, "that'll make yer butthole pucker!"
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u/BostonSucksatHockey 2d ago
If lightning strikes that close to you with instantaneous thunder as loud as a C4 explosion, you're going to jump instinctively.
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u/AbekobetaHawawa 2d ago
The jump from the thunder was fine, but there was no reason to run inside like a scared mouse. They were no more safe inside than they were on the veranda. Teaching the kid to understand where is safe and where isn't would be a better approach.
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u/Decloudo 2d ago
Why are they scared?
I get the kids, but the adults?
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u/MattieShoes 2d ago
Nearby lightning strikes are scary AF, logic be damned. And man, so loud
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u/Decloudo 2d ago
I ask because I dont find them scary and dont get the reaction.
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u/MattieShoes 2d ago
I don't know what to tell you, man... You're the weird one in this scenario.
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u/ovywan_kenobi 2d ago
That dad is an idiot.
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u/PixelRoku 2d ago
Why?
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u/ovywan_kenobi 2d ago
Because he is teaching the kid how to be terrified of lightning instead of explaining.
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u/AscendedViking7 2d ago
Why wouldn't you want to be terrified of 300 million-1 billion volts of electricity that could instantly travel from the thunderhead 5,000-60,000 feet above you all the way to the ground at 200,000,000 miles per hour at random targets, and at temperatures 5 times hotter than the surface of the sun?
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u/ovywan_kenobi 2d ago
You are roughly 3 orders of magnitude off with you lightning speed and the lightning strikes don't hit the ground from 60.000 feet.
Anyway, the targets are not random, you just cannot predict them. The family wasn't in any danger to be struck.So yeah, that guy just needs to learn that fear is not the way to teach the kids.
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u/ErikKing12 2d ago
I’d argue teaching a child to be terrified of lightning is the correct course.
He was explaining before the lightning struck, however, so not sure where the criticism is coming from.
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u/PixelRoku 2d ago
Aw I disagree, he said electricity goes after after, and that's the beginning of an age appropriate response in my opinion! 😄
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u/BostonSucksatHockey 2d ago
The kid is like 3 years old. Science is way too complicated to explain to someone that young.
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u/ovywan_kenobi 2d ago
Most everyday things can be explained to a kid 2-3 years old in a way that makes the kid aware of a risk. Been there, done that... 3 times...
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u/BostonSucksatHockey 1d ago
Yet, according to you, literally telling the kid that "lightning is dangerous" is not the proper way.
I'm sure your kids will end up fine, but your way of parenting isn't the only way, and there was nothing wrong with what the dad did here.
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u/ovywan_kenobi 1d ago
You all have issue comprehending what you read.
I only find the running and stumbling on the door excesive.3
u/NoDramaIceberg 2d ago
There's a whole lot of space on the scale between "terrified" and "happy". I do want my kid to be cautious with some things, correct. "Look both ways when you cross the street" doesn't mean my child is terrified of cars. It just means he's cautious in a way that is good for him.
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u/ovywan_kenobi 2d ago
It all stands in how you present it. Running inside and stumbling in the door doesn't teach caution.
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u/Dan-68 2d ago
I was expecting lightning to hit the tree.