Lightening - Near miss

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OH was teaching a client earlier this morning
It was raining, and without any warning a bolt of lightening hit just outside the school, horse even though it is nearly ful throughbred was a saint, and just stopped and stood like a rock.
All concerned a little shaken but thankfuly not hurt or worse FRIED!
Retreated back to the stables, bag of carrots for the pony, stiff drink for rider and OH!
 
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Lucky miss there then!
 
Scary, its actually more dangerous than I ever seem to consider, I'm afraid when I'm getting them fit to hunt in autumn and winter I hack out often in horrific storms and we live right on top of a very large hill! How stupid! Glad no one is hurt, what a good horse, hot toddies all round!
 
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Glad everyone is safe! Good horsey - extra carrots and hugs for him!!
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and large hot toddies for humans.
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The thunder has just started here - and I have just let out our poorly pony from the field shelter and pen with electric fencing as she was starting to panic. Even though she is poorly I decided she was better out with her friends running around to get out of the rain as their instinct tells them than panicking and getting caught in the electric fencing.
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Just had to have vet to two of my horses after storm last night must of all run to gether in fright and gone throufh two fences,old horse in a real mess this morning lame on all four bless him other pony very badly cut but will be ok.
Needed the rain badly but not the thunder etc
 
Glad everyone is safe. Thinking about it I have had a few run ins with lightning and horses... and as my friend helpfully pointed out thay wear 4 metal shoes.....

Sydney does spectacular dry thunderstorms (think tropical and over the top) and twice I have been up at the stables and nearly been hit.

First time I was sitting with my mum watching the storm approach (yes not very smart I admit, but it was mainly in the clouds not striking down) when a strike came down and hit the metal bird house about 10m behind us, all my hair on my back and arms stood up, you could taste metal in the air and feel the static energy.... =/

The second time I was feeding and trying to get everyone in before the storm hit, I was bringing the last horse in saw/felt something coming over my shoulder so I instinctively hit the floor (God knows why some 6th sense of self survival? Though if you consider how fast lightning moves completely useless).
The horse shot across the yard (he is a stiff 30 yr old who hasn't gone faster than a walk in years), and it hit a gum tree, that didnt appear to suffer at all.
According to Sue who was watching it just cleared the horses bum, I reckon we had a lucky escape!
I was so scared! and my legs were shaking so much that I couldnt walk, my heart was literaly in my throat.
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The third time was in Argentina working on a QH stud. Most of the horses slept out, but I had orders that if a storm came up we had to bring EvoChi in, becasue of a foot condition that meant she couldn't stand in the mud. Well I woke at 2 am to hear thunder so hopped up got dressed and went to get her.

As I was riding her back from the field, it sank in that riding bareback, with no helmet at 2 in the morning on a horse with 4 metal shoes, when on I could see lightning on every horizon (very flat grassland country) was perhaps not the best move.
What did I do? I kept riding her of course! Stuff walking =)

The funny thing is, that though we were on a roster for night duty (an it was my night) Ricardo had gotten up before me and brought in EvoChi, and I was riding her (near identical in the dark) full sister EviTu...=)

3x I think my luck maybe running out...that or I have (well I hope) 9 lives when it come to lightning...

Sorry that was long, rubber mats all round if you made it this far!
 
Oooooooh I'm afraid I'd have wee'ed myself there and then! I hate thunderstorms. We get a few each year and they always come right over the top of us (in fact we had 3 in as many days last month.) I live in the tropics of....erm.....NE scotland. It's insane! I swear it's out to get me.

Anyway I run about in a panic thinking the horses will be roasted and when I look out the back in their field they just stand there not giving a stuff. Makes perfect sense really.....manhole covers = portal to doom, thunderstorms over head = no threat at all.
 
So pleased it missed! EXtra Polos and hot choccies as appropriate
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Walking Dizz in this morning there was a thunder roll. Dizz stiffened and I thought if lightening flashes now then we're done for! Thank fully it didn't and she got into her stable before the next roll of thunder. Funny thing is, once the horses were together they didn't seem bothered, though they were staying in the open and not sheltering under the trees.
 
Well done horsey, at nearly jumped out of my skin when we go a loud crack today.

I never used to mind thunder storms and infact looked forward to them.

That was until I was walking the dogs in quite a nassty one ( at the time it was grea) it hit a tree in the field I was walking in, the thing that I cannot get out of my head i the sound the strike makes cmng through the air, hmmm, do not like them at all now.

I am gettinga little better now I have my little girl.
 
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