Lightning Strike Damage to 4Runner

After lightning struck my truck while driving, I called the police and a towing company. Once the police arrived, I finally felt safe enough to get out of my truck. Part of me knew all along that I was probably safe to touch the door right after the strike, but I guess panic got the best of me. The strike penetrated the tires, making them go flat. It also left teardrop-shaped weld marks in my tire rims; these marks are where the lightning bolt exited to the ground.

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• nebraska
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[BellyLover06]

Good thing you were in your car or that could've been you. However, I disagree that Lightning flattened the tires because rubber doesn't conduct electricity.

[jperson2007]

You're right about rubber, but perhaps the "steel-belted" part of the tire was enough to conduct some current. I can't figure out what else could have made all three tires go flat.

[accesselectricaprent]

Lucky that your insurance company replaced those items. If it was me, my insurance company would have totaled my truck because they don't want to deal with electrical problems. Great video though

[jperson2007]

Yeah, I often wonder if that strike didn't suck ten years of life from the truck somehow. Seven years later it still seems fine, no weird problems to report.

[thedrewdotcom]

i was under the impression you were supposed to time travel if this happened.

[steam0001]

Only if your doing 88 miles/hour.

[True2TheBlueYoViGang]

@jperson2007 heat cuases tires to expand while driving on the road what could have happpened is while u were driving and the thunder struck... the tires blew out as the heat from the electrical impact cuased them to expand to the point of making u suffer two blow outs... that was some pretty heavy shit u survived... lucky guy.

[mattshahn]

@BellyLover06 The electrical potential of a lightning bolt is huge. Large enough to go hundreds of feet through the air. A half inch of rubber is not enough to stop it on its way to the ground.

[lightingrings]

lightning = over 30k celcius, im surprised that ur truck is not damaged as i thought it would

[Lutris]

I'm kinda intrigued as to what lightning does to magnets now. Also, did the tires blow out right around the sidewall or at the bead? I'm curious! 

[JacobBoddington]

d00D i live right by bridgeport

[mifolious]

BACK TO THE FUTURE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[dnl5649]

@jperson2007 i think the tires went flat because when you have 20,000,000 volts @ maybe 200 amps hit your car it either melted the steel belts inside and they melted a hole in the tires or the heat deformed the tires enought to make them seperate from the burned rims and air to leak, or the rims had a hole melted in them that the air leaked by. does your car still run? im glad no one got hurt

[dnl5649]

i had a direct lightning bolt strike one of my 200 foot longwire antennas taking down the tree that it was attached to and destroying 4 radios, 2 tv's and a computer.

im glad you didnt get hurt. did you get shocked or anything or did it just blow the radio, fry the tires and vaporize the antenna?

[ThePrincessS5]

@BellyLover06 yes u are right lightning canot go trough ruberr bt it did heat the rim up so that means the pressure from the heat applyd to the air in the tiers is wat made them go flat :)

[goodboy13k]

@BellyLover06

tires arent just made up of rubber besides the rims being made of a certain metel there is steel wrapped all the way around under neither the rubber and u cant actually tell what lightning can and cannot go through because there is no way that we can replicate the amount of power that lightning produces