Trigger Mike Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 in the beginning of the movie a storm is coming so they decide to bed down the cattle and make camp on top of a hill. they leave the cattle in the valley. not far away are some woods. Wouldn't it have been smarter to make camp in the trees? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smoken D Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 Lightning. Hitting trees will travel through the roots taking out a few of the cattle vs open range, one lightning strike hopefully only one cow. Trees like lightning rods Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cat Brules Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 Don't have to make sense, but it does here. No, it wouldn't be better. Why make for a stand of trees? Wouldn't be any drier there, have to drive to the trees to begin with, harder to spread out and get ready to roll again to leave, etc. Why complicate things? They should have prepared for rain better instead of just flopping down, but they didn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tascosa, SASS# 24838 Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 Lightning. Hitting trees will travel through the roots taking out a few of the cattle vs open range, one lightning strike hopefully only one cow. Trees like lightning rods +1. Always scares the stuffing out of me when we pack in the mountains and there is a storm brewing. We stay away from the trees and ride in the valley. Safer. Trees are like lightening rods. And we came across enough lightening scored trees to stay away from them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 camping on the top of a hill? Would anyone really do that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muleshoe Bill SASS #67022 Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 You ever been in a flash flood on the top of a hill? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 You ever been in a flash flood on the top of a hill? No, but that's where the lightning hits, and lightning loves human bodies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seldom Seen #16162 Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 Since they were under the canvas shelter they made they would not attract lightening. Most likely targets were either the horses they had tied up or the metal in the wagon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted February 19, 2017 Share Posted February 19, 2017 No, but that's where the lightning hits, and lightning loves human bodies. You camp down from the crest a ways so the hilltop is higher than your cranium. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted February 19, 2017 Share Posted February 19, 2017 Must always have a tall guy in the group. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Whiskers Posted February 19, 2017 Share Posted February 19, 2017 When I was still in Minnesota; I was coming home from work one day and a thunderstorm came rolling through. I stopped at a 4 way stop and lightning hit a pretty big oak tree about 75 feet from where I was. BIG chunks of that tree exploded off of it and I ended up with broken side window on my company van. A chunk about the size of an axe handle came through it like it was butter. I had to go back to the house on that corner the next day to put his phone wire back up. His house had a hole in the roof where an even bigger chunk went through. Trees are not your friend in a T-storm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackwater 53393 Posted February 20, 2017 Share Posted February 20, 2017 Lost a big Appaloosa gelding to lightening. Hit a tree and then hit him in the withers and ran down all four of his legs!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birdgun Quail, SASS #63663 Posted February 20, 2017 Share Posted February 20, 2017 This is no joke or funny. After a near lightning strike, I saw a pulse acquisition radar, with no data or power cables connected, power itself up, panel lights lit up, and the antenna rotated backwards for about 3-5 seconds. After that lightning storm, we worked for four months before we had that HAWK system back up and operational. Lightning can do some very strange, frightening, unexplainable things. I do believe in good, efficient, well grounded lightning rods. Pulse Acquisition Radar (PAR) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Grass Range #51406 Posted February 20, 2017 Share Posted February 20, 2017 Single trees are lightning rods. Lots of trees are a safe place to be. Riding with a friend in the open lightning hit barbed wire fence, his saddle horn, his belt buckle, unhorsed him, no permanent damage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffalo Creek Law Dog Posted February 20, 2017 Share Posted February 20, 2017 We had a neighbour a few years back, who was out checking the cattle when she was hit by lightening while on horseback, both killed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tennessee Stud Posted February 20, 2017 Share Posted February 20, 2017 You camp down from the crest a ways so the hilltop is higher than your cranium. ^ This... Few years ago... me and a pard were canoeing down Duck River... got out and was wadin' the river... traversin' over a shallow place (shoal)... to get on the other side of it. 'Bout a mile away... a storm was comin'. Then... all the sudden-like... felt like I just got tazed. Was totally shook by the shock. Looked over... and Willie was down in the water. He stood up and said... "Did your eyes start seein' white?" (In private... I laughed at that question later...) He was serious... didn't even know he had been struck by lightning. Lightnin' bout a mile away that ran all the down the river to us. Here is a picture taken on that very day... had my left eye back then. ts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chalktaw A Toka, #27377L Posted February 20, 2017 Share Posted February 20, 2017 When I was still ranching in New Mexico with my Grandfather we watched a storm come up from the south and there was a ton of lightening. Next morning we found 200 head dead by the fence line. Just about 300 yard away was a smoking fence pole..... nope don't like lightening. Toke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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