Close call with lightning

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I can't even begin to recall how many close calls I had on Lake Okeechobee. The weather would blow in very fast and the airboats just couldn't outrun them. It is not a good feeling riding that high off the water on an all metal conductor in the middle of an electrical storm. Glad they weren't hit. I really don't take chances with lightning or storms anymore. No fish is worth being hit by lightning or even the risk of being struck.
 
Tell you what, that's my biggest fear in a tin boat,

Not that you can't be struck in a glass boat its just that I think you're a little bit more susceptible in a aluminum boat. We get those storms her in South Florida that literally pop up out of nowhere. I've been chase off the flat countless times. I'm a little bit of a risk taker but I don't play when it comes to lightning. [-X Here in the lightning capital of the world I've had more close calls that I care to remember.
 

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