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Originally posted by Jimbo
i heard about 5 car alarms go off outside.

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a thunder that you missed?
sometimes the simplest explanation is better

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Originally posted by Volv
more than meets the eye

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ahaahahahhahhahahahaahhahahaha win quote.... never say that to a chick though.

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Originally posted by Voldemort

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Originally posted by Jimbo
i heard about 5 car alarms go off outside.

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a thunder that you missed?

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But the weather was fine, it was a bit cloudy but wasnt raining or anything.
EDIT: and isnt thunder the one you hear, and the lightning the one you see and the one that hits the ground?

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Originally posted by Jimbo

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Originally posted by Voldemort

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Originally posted by Jimbo
i heard about 5 car alarms go off outside.

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a thunder that you missed?

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and isnt thunder the one you hear, and the lightning the one you see and the one that hits the ground?

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Yes


What colour were the clouds?

Lightening rarely hits the ground in England though.(it's called fork lightening, btw) We mostly have sheet lightening(just flashes across the sky)

Both thunder and lightening carry electric currents of sorts, the car wouldn't need to be hit by lightening to be set off(infact it'd probably melt the tires right off if it was, as it uses the cars body as a way to earth it's self.) The sheer build up of electrical charge in the atmosphere could set it off(theoretically I guess, I imagine it'd have to be a pretty large charge for it to affect the cars simply from the atmosphere) which means both lightening and thunder.

Either way I doubt you wouldn't notice a storm big enough for that happen.

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Originally posted by High Speed Chaser

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Originally posted by Jimbo

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Originally posted by Voldemort

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Originally posted by Jimbo
i heard about 5 car alarms go off outside.

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a thunder that you missed?

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and isnt thunder the one you hear, and the lightning the one you see and the one that hits the ground?

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Yes


What colour were the clouds?

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White

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Originally posted by vaccination
Lightening rarely hits the ground in England though.(it's called fork lightening, btw) We mostly have sheet lightening(just flashes across the sky)

Both thunder and lightening carry electric currents of sorts, the car wouldn't need to be hit by lightening to be set off(infact it'd probably melt the tires right off if it was, as it uses the cars body as a way to earth it's self.) The sheer build up of electrical charge in the atmosphere could set it off(theoretically I guess, I imagine it'd have to be a pretty large charge for it to affect the cars simply from the atmosphere) which means both lightening and thunder.

Either way I doubt you wouldn't notice a storm big enough for that happen.

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Yes exactly. Oh well, it happened and every is working again so im not really bothered. I was just curious about why it happened

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Originally posted by vaccination
(infact it'd probably melt the tires right off if it was, as it uses the cars body as a way to earth it's self.)

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LOL NO!

http://www.lightningsafety.com/nlsi_pls/vehicle_strike.html
http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/1997-08/872628071.Ph.r.html

It can make a hole on a tire though:
http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/myfox/pages/News/D...=TSTY&pageId=3.2.1
a lightning provoked fire that melted the tires
http://www.livingstondaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/arti...4/NEWS01/807040311

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Originally posted by Jimbo

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Originally posted by zach
The x360 usually 3RL's after a power surge. I don't know why car alarms would go off though

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Exactly what i thought. I also thought it was weird that only my computer and my xbox turned off. Nothing else in the house did.

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I doubt it was a power surge (more voltage than normal). It might have been a brief power down/cut (no voltage at all) though.

Computers are extremely sensitive to power surges or power downs. And even a few millisecs of no power can turn your computer off or rebooting.

Other appliances (especially the common household stuff) are usually not so sensitive and you might not even notice when the power is cut for a few hundreds of millisecs.

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As for the cars, that might have been coincidence too. And one car alarm might trigger another car alarm (happens a lot where I work... so much that a guy from one of those cars permanently turned his alarm off since it was way too sensitive (and after we complained a lot) lol). Or a kid who thought it was funny to push cars while he walked by.

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Though, I would realy keep an eye out for that choosen one.....