For those of us that have been lucky enough to spend a large portion of our lives on the water, lightning can provide that little SPARK of excitment.

We had a storm moving in and had just put the kids in the car and like 30 or so other people I was rushing to get the mast down as there was lightning all around. I was standing on the beach when lightning struck a power pole across the street. Everyone standing on the beach was shocked and while it wasn't much fun taking that shock the sound of all of us on the beach yelling the death scream at the same time had a certian humor to it. Thankfully the kids didn't get the hit.

Mike