@quantumbits well rubber doesn't conduct to electricity, and the tires are made out of rubber, so when the car is struck it won't affect the car or it's carriers, well the car will get pretty wrecked but the electricity wont carry through the car and shock the car's passengers, unlike if it were to strike a pool and somebody was swimming.
@coolio979 . The few inches of rubber tire provides no insulating barrier to 4 million volts and provides no passenger safety.
People in cars are unaffected because the car metal shell carries the current flow safely around the passengers. The lightening is then passed to ground usually by the shortest route... the wheel rims, through or around the rubber tires... to ground. In reality you will find that cars that are struck by lightening typically have tire damage.
@quantumbits You're right. That's really fascinating. It's the conductive metal framing which protects the vehicle occupants, If the rubber tires were truly responsible for insulating a car, then lightning would never have struck this car.
I heard that in a car is a safe place to be if hit by lightening because it's insulated with rubber. Dunno if thts correct but I remember hearin it somewhere.
Exactly! And the amount of voltage it takes to make an arc from the middle of a cloud to the ground (miles) would make anything seem like 'ground' to the lightning anyways. A 5 foot thick rubber block wouldnt even do shit.
Amazing video. took me a second to realize that the antenna was like a sparkler. As far as sound, since they were at the ground zero of the strike, hardly any thunder is heard. Air when heated exapands outwards, like a rain drop hitting water. The drop being the lightning strike, so if your that close and lucky to live to brag about it, then there is hardly any sound. Now had they been say 10ft away, the sound waves would've been horribly loud as it expanded outwards. Great Vid.
i donno .. lightnings do hit cars .. but suspicious thing here is that .. if lightning is gonna hit near you you hear the charge building up .. all the buzzing and stuff .. and i dont here it in this video ..im not saying this is fake .. just that it might be .. that could have been thermite charge exploding on antena
I saw a utilities truck get its boom to close to a highvoltage line of 17,000 volts. The line arced to the boom and blew 1" holes in all four rims - simultaniously flattening all four tires.
I heard on the news, that you can still get hit by lightening whether or not you are inside a car. The car would have to be moving and not at snail-pace to be struck.
Being in a ENCLOSED CAR (not open roofed or windows open) when lightning is claimed on loads of websites to be the SECOND MOST SAFEST place to be in a lightning storm.
First place is inside an enclosed building.
You are never however completely safe from lightning storms but can minimize the risk of being stuck.
it's not luck you survived, anyone would survive, the car acts like a faraday cage, basically it conducts the lightning around you in the body shell and to the chassis as ground. it blew your electrics because it basically supercharged your battery (via chassis ground leading to negative on battery) and killed it. but in any case, you survive because the charge never enters the interior. lookup 'faraday cage' on wikipedia - it'll give you that bit extra common sense =)
no, the battery would not explode. the electricity never goes into the battery - 'earth' on a car electrics layout is actually not earth. it goes to the negative side of the battery. and ofcourse, the battery wont take the charge of the lightning strike, so it will continue to real earth - jumping from the chassis of the car, to the ground creating another arc of 'lightning'. this is because the rubber tires can't conduct the electricity to the ground.
'if' the lightning went threw the battery it would explode instantly. Car tires do conduct electricity, depending on how much "carbon black" is used. Otherwise the vehicle would static charge and you'd get a shock everytime you step foot out of the car or when you put the fuel pump nozzle into the gas filler. Tires are wet from rain in lightning storms, making it easy for lightning to ground.
Rubber doesn't conduct electricity, but the film of rainwater over it does, and the path the lightning takes through it is going to get very hot, certainly enough to pop the tire it's traveling over.
You are right rubber is an insulator and air is too. But, a lightening bolt can be millions of volts. Thats enough EMF to ionize and transverse several miles of air. The 6 inches between the rim and the ground or 2 inches of rubber is no barrier. You would have to have rubber thousands of feet thick and miles wide to be a insulator for 400 million volts.
Also car tires have steel belts which are very good conductors. If any of the steel was exposed and contacting water it would be a good circuit. I guess the lightning went through the car's electrical after hitting the antenna and grounded through the wet wheels.
i actually saw a freaky human figure when quickstopping the vid around 00:14. kinda' like a bald guy with a big collar on his shirt and a very tiny waist. i did. do u??
wow how can you guys be so calm?
NickDan555 6 months ago
DIRECT HIT!
CBPCorps 6 months ago
hahah i like how they're all cool about it.
Guitarfollower22 8 months ago
woah if you paise where the lightning striked theres alot of sparks
minillagodzilla2004 9 months ago
DAMN!!!!!
ORANGEWOODFBS 1 year ago
what the hell?
bigdady2700 1 year ago
It was my video but thanks for posting it.
bmarsh759 1 year ago
Scary
iJandiN2727 1 year ago
good thing cars have tires made of RUBBER.
coolio979 1 year ago
@coolio979 What difference do the tires make?
quantumbits 1 year ago
@quantumbits well rubber doesn't conduct to electricity, and the tires are made out of rubber, so when the car is struck it won't affect the car or it's carriers, well the car will get pretty wrecked but the electricity wont carry through the car and shock the car's passengers, unlike if it were to strike a pool and somebody was swimming.
coolio979 1 year ago
@coolio979 . The few inches of rubber tire provides no insulating barrier to 4 million volts and provides no passenger safety.
People in cars are unaffected because the car metal shell carries the current flow safely around the passengers. The lightening is then passed to ground usually by the shortest route... the wheel rims, through or around the rubber tires... to ground. In reality you will find that cars that are struck by lightening typically have tire damage.
quantumbits 1 year ago
@quantumbits You're right. That's really fascinating. It's the conductive metal framing which protects the vehicle occupants, If the rubber tires were truly responsible for insulating a car, then lightning would never have struck this car.
coolio979 1 year ago
@coolio979 Ha! I think maybe you could be right. It's all probability. Lightening does hit airplanes sometimes. Maybe they just more get in the way !
quantumbits 1 year ago
i would have shit my boxers
quincy929 1 year ago
FAKE!
destruktivtv 1 year ago
jesus christ man that would be dead scary if that happened 2 me
ElexionExonAvalon 1 year ago
maybe it's a buick electra
allergic2kryptonite 1 year ago
I heard that in a car is a safe place to be if hit by lightening because it's insulated with rubber. Dunno if thts correct but I remember hearin it somewhere.
dshishod 1 year ago
@dshishod, it is as long you don't touch anything that is metal, like tocuhing the keys inside the ignition
SpiritsoftheWolf 1 year ago
that would of scared the hec out of me... wow.
75blain 1 year ago
oh my god
MrWinkler1992 1 year ago
Holy shit! it was the closest strike I ever seen WOW!
adambus77 1 year ago
i gave you a thumbs up because only you would do that fagget
AustinLewisSkater 2 years ago
HOLY SHIT!
chunk1978 2 years ago
Amazing how bright that antenna was. I thought it was a street light at first
plateshutoverlock 2 years ago
rad!
KingT1233 2 years ago
It's not that the car forms a Faraday Cage, since lightning isn't static electricity. It has to do with the skin effect.
UrameshiCdd 2 years ago
Exactly! And the amount of voltage it takes to make an arc from the middle of a cloud to the ground (miles) would make anything seem like 'ground' to the lightning anyways. A 5 foot thick rubber block wouldnt even do shit.
Xxero0 2 years ago
i use rubber antenna and my car hit by lightning entring santiago dom rep
richy2244 2 years ago
WOW
savannarose12 2 years ago
damn!
that was insane!!!!
that was a fuckin life experience!
dude.. awesome! fuckin frightening tho!
lackofntrest 2 years ago
how come it wasnt loud????????????????
hounddog127 2 years ago
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jacobtb1 2 years ago
shu the fuck up
jake0the0muss 2 years ago
Sounded like you ran over a deer but when i saw the antena glowing, the car got hit.
DramaMoma100 2 years ago
Amazing video. took me a second to realize that the antenna was like a sparkler. As far as sound, since they were at the ground zero of the strike, hardly any thunder is heard. Air when heated exapands outwards, like a rain drop hitting water. The drop being the lightning strike, so if your that close and lucky to live to brag about it, then there is hardly any sound. Now had they been say 10ft away, the sound waves would've been horribly loud as it expanded outwards. Great Vid.
Detroit, Mich
booimscared 2 years ago
i donno .. lightnings do hit cars .. but suspicious thing here is that .. if lightning is gonna hit near you you hear the charge building up .. all the buzzing and stuff .. and i dont here it in this video ..im not saying this is fake .. just that it might be .. that could have been thermite charge exploding on antena
lacollll 2 years ago
I am so glad you are all survived!
Did you know that INSIDE OF THE CAR is the safest place when you have T-Storm.
Lightning almost struck our car before,too.
It just hit the ground, but it scared us 'cause it sounded like someone shot 12 gauze shot -gun.
ikachanusa 2 years ago
'tis possible that it was not a large strike, therfore thunder not so loud
supercellwish 3 years ago
I saw a utilities truck get its boom to close to a highvoltage line of 17,000 volts. The line arced to the boom and blew 1" holes in all four rims - simultaniously flattening all four tires.
JimbowT 3 years ago
HOLY CRAP THAT WAS CLOSE.
casperblackcat1975 3 years ago
I heard on the news, that you can still get hit by lightening whether or not you are inside a car. The car would have to be moving and not at snail-pace to be struck.
Armoredavian 3 years ago
omg i would of have been scared.
growingup15 3 years ago 12
What is she going do do?
elevatorgeorgie 1 year ago
This is why you stay home if there thunder & lightning outside
elevatorgeorgie 1 year ago
@elevatorgeorgie Yeah i posted that 2 years ago. Um hahaha i be out in storms taking video and pictures now like crazy. i love storms
growingup15 1 year ago
sounds like they were stoned at the time
Buffy420 3 years ago
It's the faraday cage effect.
scarybex 3 years ago 2
That scared the poop out of me.
koalasaucegirl 3 years ago
OMG INDEED:S wooow scary
governer180 3 years ago
Wow amazing I thought the sound was very strong or the camera couldn't record it with the real volume?
rod7500 3 years ago
I WONDER, how did they juzz get away wid a flat tyre & a carbonized antenna ????????
Seriously Strange .....But good n Lucky for em'.
akashbaba 3 years ago
OMG... they were lucky.
I usually like to cycle in the evening in the summer now i'm worried :F
unknownwierdo1 3 years ago
WOOOOOOOW 5/5
Lukasz564 3 years ago
oh wow! Thats freaky!!
I'll NEVER go in a car when theres
lightning! :S
Ameeleea 3 years ago
Being in a ENCLOSED CAR (not open roofed or windows open) when lightning is claimed on loads of websites to be the SECOND MOST SAFEST place to be in a lightning storm.
First place is inside an enclosed building.
You are never however completely safe from lightning storms but can minimize the risk of being stuck.
unknownwierdo1 3 years ago
lol 15 secs the antenna is a bright red rod. Nice
Igloo5555 3 years ago
Wow is there anyone get's hurt?
mrThorleifsen 4 years ago
Jesus, what happend? omg.... thats terrible.
Wafelwaffel 4 years ago 2
I jumped.
wheeloffortunefan 4 years ago 5
holy shit !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
tornade55 4 years ago 3
wow, i'm glad you guys were ok.
WhiteMarz 4 years ago 2
WOW ! im scared of lightening but also love it, i've nearly been struck (6ft away).
TITTYWHACKER 4 years ago
6 feet away from a lightning bolt? How's your hearing?
kryss119 4 years ago
good point
fazrocs111 4 years ago 2
Crazy!
phillybits 4 years ago
nice man nice nice nice!!!!
I give u 5*!!
boomaticaboom 4 years ago
Did your hazard flashers even work after that? Wow!
syncplay 4 years ago
Amazing how safe cars are from so much power!
IrwinFinklestein 4 years ago
Wow....cool! :)
IrwinFinklestein 4 years ago
it's not luck you survived, anyone would survive, the car acts like a faraday cage, basically it conducts the lightning around you in the body shell and to the chassis as ground. it blew your electrics because it basically supercharged your battery (via chassis ground leading to negative on battery) and killed it. but in any case, you survive because the charge never enters the interior. lookup 'faraday cage' on wikipedia - it'll give you that bit extra common sense =)
dix0nyt 4 years ago
The battery would of exploded in that case. It just reset the computer, I bet it started right up after he tried to restart.
kryss119 4 years ago
no, the battery would not explode. the electricity never goes into the battery - 'earth' on a car electrics layout is actually not earth. it goes to the negative side of the battery. and ofcourse, the battery wont take the charge of the lightning strike, so it will continue to real earth - jumping from the chassis of the car, to the ground creating another arc of 'lightning'. this is because the rubber tires can't conduct the electricity to the ground.
dix0nyt 4 years ago
'if' the lightning went threw the battery it would explode instantly. Car tires do conduct electricity, depending on how much "carbon black" is used. Otherwise the vehicle would static charge and you'd get a shock everytime you step foot out of the car or when you put the fuel pump nozzle into the gas filler. Tires are wet from rain in lightning storms, making it easy for lightning to ground.
kryss119 4 years ago
Krss119 you are a bit confused.
quantumbits 4 years ago
especially wet car tires..
nr4dw 3 years ago
Um, rubber does NOT conduct electricity so lightning cannot flatten tires.
BellyLover06 3 years ago
Rubber doesn't conduct electricity, but the film of rainwater over it does, and the path the lightning takes through it is going to get very hot, certainly enough to pop the tire it's traveling over.
executor32 3 years ago 6
You are right rubber is an insulator and air is too. But, a lightening bolt can be millions of volts. Thats enough EMF to ionize and transverse several miles of air. The 6 inches between the rim and the ground or 2 inches of rubber is no barrier. You would have to have rubber thousands of feet thick and miles wide to be a insulator for 400 million volts.
quantumbits 3 years ago 10
Also car tires have steel belts which are very good conductors. If any of the steel was exposed and contacting water it would be a good circuit. I guess the lightning went through the car's electrical after hitting the antenna and grounded through the wet wheels.
Platypi007 2 years ago
@quantumbits but electricity chooses the path of least resistance, which is through the metal of the car body.
nakedrobz 1 year ago
that antenna glowing like that, that is kewl. nice vid
manofwar012 4 years ago
hahahaha, neat
colemckelvie 4 years ago
It is kind of neat . But why would you say hahahaha??????????
Zippy395 4 years ago
why not?
kryss119 4 years ago
wow...seeing the antenna glowing like that is cooool..excellant video
daftdaveuk30 4 years ago
i woulda turned my pants BROWN. GAD. Definately a keeper. The power of Nature, baby!!
stormspinner1 4 years ago
after the car is hit by lightning, don't get out the car until the storm is stop
josephtan1818 4 years ago
The hell you say..
KrystalFrizz 4 years ago
intense. thanks for that cool video
chunk1978 5 years ago
never get out the car, keep window close, wait until lightning stop and you're done, safe :)
josephtan1818 5 years ago
Ufff scary surprise...
HanzPrague 5 years ago
wow amazing!!!
maly648 5 years ago
i actually saw a freaky human figure when quickstopping the vid around 00:14. kinda' like a bald guy with a big collar on his shirt and a very tiny waist. i did. do u??
sanhelmi 5 years ago
That's freaky.
bendejonge 5 years ago