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    I worry more about a my gear then myself. I just keep picturing over and over a large branch hitting my Hammock Gear CF tarp.
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    Quote Originally Posted by sargevining View Post
    I enjoy the spectacle. You're just as safe in a hammock as you are in a tent, except when the water flows under you, your backside doesn't get wet.

    If you anticipate storms, hang your tarp low to the ground, pick your campsite so that the prevailing winds hit the side and not the ends, and make sure you're not in the midst of dead trees.

    After that, its just you and what God does.
    Agreed, best answer yet!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by sargevining View Post
    I enjoy the spectacle. You're just as safe in a hammock as you are in a tent, except when the water flows under you, your backside doesn't get wet.

    If you anticipate storms, hang your tarp low to the ground, pick your campsite so that the prevailing winds hit the side and not the ends, and make sure you're not in the midst of dead trees.

    After that, its just you and what God does.
    Exactly...just enjoy the show. I love me a good thunderstorm.

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    "Do Not Do What We Do...." Shug said
    But look at this like adventure in a Thunderstorm
    Nothing is so bad, that it isn't good for something!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nagelschuh View Post
    "Do Not Do What We Do...." Shug said
    But look at this like adventure in a Thunderstorm
    Whoah, that is awesome!

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    This guy was so concerned about lightning he started two threads on it.

    https://www.hammockforums.net/forum/...ntry+lightning

    https://www.hammockforums.net/forum/...ntry+lightning
    "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." Ralph Waldo Emerson

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    Ha! I like one of the comments. The odds of being struck by lightning should be included in any discussion on being struck by lightning. Very true.

    I've been inside a house where it hit the ground outside on a couple sides of the house. Its really a wildly organic thing. Path of least resistance and all but it never seems to go where you think it would.

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    Pretty much I go to sleep. I love sleeping while rain drops pummel my tarp. Of course, I'm in Florida where thunderstorms are just normal background noise.
    Mike
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    Some of my friends and I carry 2 way radios for when were hunkered down we can still bs and have laughs. The ones in our group who don't have radios swear that they will next time. When ground dwellers and hangers are spread out it makes it so much easier.
    Formerly McBlaster
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    Back in '012 spent the entire summer, 2 1/2 months in a hammock in Maine, where I had never seen a lightening storm in 8 previous summers. Heard a distant rumble and figured I would hit the hammock early to beat out the rain. We are located in Frankfort Me. at the base of Mt Waldo. The Tadpole was up in porch mode and I could see the top of the mountain from under the edge of the tarp. Then the storm rolled in! Being from central Florida I was use to lightening but there are 3 towers on top of Mt Waldo and the show was awesome. I felt very safe knowing that most if not all of the strikes were on the mountain. Lasted all of 45 min. or an hour. Then laid in the hammock at 75°F, 100% humidity and then I heard the AC kicked on in the RV. One of only a couple of nights I didn't stay in the hammock all night.
    Most of us end up poorer here but richer for being here. Olddog, Fulltime hammocker, 365 nights a year.

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