Thunderstorm Montage - 11th October 2006

Very close thunderstorm during the morning of 11th October 2006. The first clap of thunder I calculated to be just over 200m away! I wasn't expecting the thunder to be so quick (and loud for that matter) after the strike, which is why I nearly drop the camera! The rain was so heavy, that the road turned into a river. It was at least 3in deep. Apparently some of the lecture rooms at Brookes Uni were flooded - and parts of the ring road around south Oxford were so flooded, the water came up to car windscreens.

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• Headington
• Oxford
• Thunderstorm

[kandath]

Fascinating video! was it taken at the Brooks Headington campus?

Cheers,

Kris

[storminsi]

Just down the road from the Headington Campus, yes.

[Rumpio]

Safe? Gah, half the fun is the possibility of being killed!

[Sentury11]

a house is the safest place in a thunderstorm after that is the car the savest

[a2g6d4k8]

silvertk is full of sh-- because the weather channel specials have shown it is the Farrady Cage effect not the tires.

[fatboyz33]

that is one mightly blast

[metadyneman]

I suggest you read up on the faraday shield principle.. that is why you are safe in a car.. I can assure you it has absolutely NOTHING to do with the tyres.

[silvertk]

All to do with the tyres... Its a Metal covering, with rubber (tyres) to earth the strike.. as long as u aint touching metal, the bolt passes from roof, straight to the ground.

[metadyneman]

Nothing to do with the tyres at all.. it all to do with the fact you are inside a metal cage.. If you are caught outside in a storm the safest place is in a car away from any trees. The tyres are wet and water conducts electricity so that is nothing to do with it.  NIce storm though :0)

[jamescooling]

its the safest place to be in a thunderstorm, somethin to do with the tyres