--- In [email protected], "Janice McDonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have been > wondering about lightning since last weekend. I moved my horses a couple of weeks ago to a new place. One reason was that the pasture was poor and I was having a hard time with the people who owned the place, this place has plenty of grass and they have enough hay for all the horses all winter, they put up their own hay. There is a bit of a hay shortage because we had 6 weeks without rain in the spring. Hay prices are high, high for this area anyway. The last straw was when two of their riding horses were struck by lightening and killed. They were standing next to the high tensile wire electric fence. I had been reading about this the week before it happened. It seems that this kind of fence might actually attract lightening and it is able to run down the fence easily. I know it can happen any time, it's not always avoidable, trees can be dangerous, but at least I don't want the horses where things might actually attract the lightening and make it easier. I doubt the electric tape would do this, I think it would just melt. I can't find a perfect place to board, but the food situation has straightened out. The problem with putting the horses in wooden barns in storms is that the barn can be set on fire by lightening, that would be good either. I doubt a metal barn would be good either. Most of the barns around here are wooden. I'm thinking when I build a barn, I want it to be made of cement block, I'm still not sure what I want the roof to be made of, but something that doesn't attract lightening and won't burn easily. We get some good storms here, the house I live in sits on the site of the oldest court house in Ky, it was struck by lightening and burned to the ground in about 1915, hopefully it's true that lightening doesn't strike twice in the same place. Kim
