MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - Re: Awesome Thunderstorms

> Yes you were very close to that lightning strike and there was either static
> electricity or some kind of magnetic field when it struck. I'm too lazy to look it up
> and see which one. '
>
> I had a similar experience once. I had just got my young girls to bed and was on the
> computer. It was dead silent in the house with the exception of the distant thunder,
> when all of the sudden I felt some kind of charge in the air (I'm inside remember), a
> bright flash and BOOM! That lightning had to of struck damned close! Right after it
> hit, several of the girls toys started talking, playing music, etc. It was like
> something from a movie except the toys did not come after me and stopped in a few
> seconds. I asked one of the electrical engineers at work about it the next day and he
> said the lightning caused the ICs in the toys to reset causing them to activate (or
> something like that). It was caused by the static or magnetic field (cannot remember
> which though).

Yeah, it was really weird. Was at a party this afternoon and talked about it with some other buddies who were out and about around that time and they said they heard a very loud clap of thunder right around the time I had the weird stuff going on. The storm was beautiful to watch, but man it was scary.

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