It’s supposed to thunderstorm for the next 4 days. If it’s raining I still usually send the guys out. What do you guys do if there is a scheduled thunderstorm? I mean, I really don’t want my guys crawling around on roofs with a metal pole and gutter spoon when it’s lightning and thundering out even if it’s not raining. What do you guys usually do in this circumstance?
If there is lightning in the area we don’t work. I really have no desire to find out if I can survive a lightning strike. 
I don’t work outside if it’s lightening. Years ago, I was holding onto an aluminum screen door when lightening shot across and hit it. I was thrown all the way back inside of the house. My girlfriend at the time said I lit up like a Christmas tree. Not wanting a repeat of that one.
Work is on except if it is lightning…I mean teh type of lightning that gets too close for comfort. I was doing a pw job a couple weeks ago, when a storm rolled in out of nowhere, and lightning was literally striking down everywhere around me. What an idiot I am for standing there in a downpour, shooting water 20+ feet into the air with lightning like that. I kept telling myself…“you’re almost done, you’re almost done.” Then more lightning would strike. Yeah, just not worth it…
WOE, you got hit by lightning? Thats insane!!! Did you see it happen or did you just get thrilled and find out later?
I didn’t get hit directly, the door did, but it went through me just the same. lol I didn’t know it happened until afterward and even then I didn’t know exactly what had happened until my girlfriend told me what she had seen. You know that feeling you have when there is a lot of electricity in the air…body hair standing on end etc.? Well I felt like that for a couple of hours after, except that it felt like it was coming from inside of me. Was definitely an odd feeling and taught me firsthand the power of lightening. Stupidest part was that I was standing there in the doorway watching a tree burn that lightening had hit. :rolleyes:
It was about two weeks ago, a really bad storm came up. I was on I-85, and they had been doing some paving. This was the first rain since, so the fresh pavement roads were like ice with all this heavy rain. I decided to wait the storm out a little, so I went to a gas station and was just watching the storm.
It had been about 10 minutes, but it was still pretty bad out, must have been a slow moving storm. All of the sudden I feel the hair on my neck raise up. About 2 seconds later BANG. A bright flash and ringing ear drums. I look out the window of the truck and I see the power line bouncing. Lighting had hit a power pole that was bout 10 feet away from me. Then I realized there was a section of power line right over my truck. Since it was still shaking and the transformer was still buzzing I got out of there in a HURRY.
So, needless to say, No - I will not work in a thunderstorm.
Say, you don’t have any super-powers now do you? You could be like [COLOR=“red”]Squeegee[/COLOR] [COLOR=“blue”]Man[/COLOR] or something- able to clean whole buildings in a single leap!
If you didn’t get any super powers, did you at least get to see the light at the end of the tunnel and hear a choir of singing angles… or something?
But in answer to the original question- No, I’m not in a hurry to “ride the lightning” anytime soon. I just take a break and let things pass on.
LOL! No, no super human powers to speak of.
Probably a good thing you got out of there Micah!
Be carefull don’t work in the lighting.
I won’t work OUTSIDE in a thunderstorm, but If you wanna see me kick my butt into hyperdrive, come around BEFORE a thunderstorm. I run around like a hurricane trying to get it done lol
thankful that you’re safe! but got a lesson to learn and at that time you flew like super man. A super man window cleaner 
Got to hear a lecture a couple weeks ago from a meteorologist from the Natinal Weather Service in regards to lightning. It was an eye opener. Lightning can hit up to 10 MILES away from it’s source. When I hear the first thunder, that’s it for me until it is long gone or stops. Beleive it or not, a vehicle is a very safe place to be during a lightning storm if you have no other place to go. When you hair stands on end the strike is going to be near you.
I felt the “hair standing up” feeling once, maybe in 12th grade, while walking up train tracks with my HS girlfriend right after a thunderstorm rolled through. I felt it, looked at her and her hair was rising, and luckily we put 2+2 together REAL quick and ran under trees. Not the brightest idea running under a tree when you feel the tingles, but hey, it worked I guess. Not much else we could have done besides standing there
:D. I agree. I like to watch them but I don’t want to be the lighting rod. [URL=“http://kentuckywindowcleaning.net”]
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FWIW, our neighborhood pool uses the thirty minute rule. Once thunder is heard, the pool automatically closes for 30 minutes. If thunder is heard again during that time, the clock is re-set at 30 and the countdown starts all over again.
In NC, we can count on thunderstorms almost EVERY afternoon due to the heat, humidity and soil composition. Makes me have second thoughts about the three-day rain guarantee I keep hearing about!
You’ll also hear (read) that customers rarely call a WC’er back on the basis of a rain gaurantee.
Yes, happily, I have read that, too!
I never used to pay much attention to it unless the lightning was striking close.
A few weeks ago I was on a roof and there was thunder and some lightning several miles away. It was clear as a bell where I was.
It took me a second to realize that the massive concussion and bright flash was lightning striking a radio tower about 40 yards from where I was standing.
I am now revising my lightning policy.
And my underwear.
