We have a ‘metal’ chimeny flue with a wood stack built around it. A squirrel had gnawed through the sheathing of the wood wall where a couple of the wood siding boards got blown off during Herricane Katrina.
The reason you are safe while driving in a lightning storm is because of the fact that lightning is ___________, and travels on the outside of the metal instead of through or inside it.
Don’t tell me that the reason you are safe is because of the rubber on your tires because lightning has traveled thousands of miles and doesn’t give a -ya- about traveling through a few inches of rubber.
And please, unless you are sure that all static electricity travels on the outside of metal, don’t say that lightning is static electricity. I know, thanks.
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