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From: garnett@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Roger Garnett)
Newsgroups: sci.misc
Subject: Re: best design
Message-ID: <3218@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 18 Dec 87 14:07:40 GMT
References: <848@uop.edu>
Reply-To: garnett@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Roger Garnett)
Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
Lines: 16
Keywords: stress, wind shear, tents

In article <848@uop.edu> robert@uop.edu (Hi how ya doin) writes:
>Also is there any relevance to using glass poles as opposed to aluminum
>for reduced lightning attraction?
>*Someone* must have some type of meager statistics on this.

Meager, Yes, here's one: I don't know about the statistics, but recently, at
Darian Lakes Park (between Rochester and Buffalo) there was an incident where
a tent was checked because it's permit had expired and (weak stomachs q here)
the occupants were found dead inside, the victims of a lightning strike 
2 days before. There wasn't much left of their *metal* pole.

	Roger Garnett  		(garnett@batcomputer)
	Cornell Phonetics Lab   (garnett@tcgould.TN.CORNELL.EDU) 
	Ithaca N.Y.		(bitnet: sggy@cornellC) 

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