Lightning strikes through rear windsheild (with pic)

[Ryan McGinnis]

Faraday cage it may be, but not if the bolt decides to go through the window!

http://www.nbc6.net/news/4936711/detail.html

 

[Robert Edmonds]

Maybe some one could drudge a video up? I could swear I saw one time a bolt going through the front windshield on tv. I know glass is a good insulator and metal is a good conductor, but with those voltages who knows how it's going to strike?

 

[Robert Dewey]

My guess is that it was attracted to the defrost coils... When it struck the coils, the rapid heating/cooling caused the window to shatter.

 

[Dick McGowan]

I saw this once on TWC only through the front. Definently something that every chaser thinks about each time he goes out. Glad to see no one is hurt.

 

[Kevin Bowman]

isint this the 2nd time this has happen this summer? the first one was in utah or something and went through the windshield