[philmont] Baldy Porch Talk - Lightning Safety.

I think it's safe to say that most of the people on this list saw the same thing I did in the sketchy information coming out of Sundays lightning strike. Not that we are condemming others, but we all felt the same thing. Something was amiss.
   
  I feel sort of like we are all preaching to che choir on this subject as most have expressed virtually the same sentiment. this list has a combined experience of probably several hundreds of years in the out of doors.
   
  In Scouting as well as in the general out of doors, there are those who know and those who don't. There are very few inbetween. It is our responsibility to do our best to inform those who do not know, so I encourage you to try and keep on trying.
   
  All of us have experienced those advisors that we'd just as soon not be along due to their thin layer of knowledge and good decision making and more disasterously their inability to take positive suggestions.
   
  BSA did a real good job on addressing the problem of pedophiles working with youth adn it would be a quantum leaf forward if they found a way to deal with these type leaders. Unfortunately there hasn't been a way yet to deal effectively with the problem. It's sort of a lead the horse to water but can't make him drink type thing.
   
  On my last trek to Philmont in 2002 I had an advisor tell me that he thought I was being overly cautious. So be it. Three days later he was in CHQ medical having seven stitches put in his head from a conservation project accident in shich he got on the downhill side of about a 2,000 pound rock that rolled into him. I rest my case on that one.
   
  I live in the humid Gulf coast and we have a lot of thunderstorms, but the humidity is high. When I got to West Texas or to the mountains the lightning really gets my attention. I don't know if it's the dry air or what , but the intensity of the lightning is a lot more than I'm used to.
   
  In 1996 we drove through Cimarron canyon just before the tornado hit Cimarron. We intended to visit Philont, but opted out because of the bad weather. On the way to Capulin we had to stop and turn around and drive away from a lightning storm that was striking the road about five miles ahead of us. you could the sparks of dirt and rocks flying up from the strikes. As we sat in Capulin waiting for the storms to subside, we counted five seperate ones at the same time right after dark in every direction. We were in the middle of them and so was Philmont.
   
  Dr. Bob put it in the proper perspective about accidents. Lightning can get the entire crew. That is something to keep in mind.
   
  John LeBlanc

       
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Received on Tue Jul 31 21:47:25 2007