- Lily: I’ll take you to Sandra, okay?
- Woo: … yes.
- Lily: Don’t worry, Woo. You’ll get well soon.
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- Lily: I’ll take you to Sandra, okay?
- Woo: … yes.
- Lily: Don’t worry, Woo. You’ll get well soon.
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Oh ouch ouch, the second panel… is there going to be a fire?
Hmm, I wonder what the light in the last panel is coming from?
I REALLY hope the light in panel 4 is Sandra being impatient…
@ Le Neko:
It looks like it’s raining pretty hard, so it’s not very likely.
@ Le Neko:
With that rain? Don’t think so. Everything is pretty much soaked. Even Larissa wouldn’t be able to get a fire started in that weather.
Please Don’t doubt my skills with fire
Maybe it’s the aliens…
– Look, we’ve got to abduct something. We’re two cycles behind on probings, we haven’t tested the new multispecies enhancement and augmentation technologies at all, and the biological samples aren’t going to collect themselves, are they? This storm might be screwing with our sensors, but it’ll cover up our activities and reduce the possibility of witnesses. Now, here we are, at that group of contacts! Visual identification, please!
– Er… two raccoons, one injured. Possible intelligence anomaly…
– WhatEVER! Focus the abduction beam and scoop them up!
– And the two humans in the vehicle?
– “the two humans in the vehicle” -tharg preserve us- YES! Do I have to do all the thinking round here?
And a great and powerful being brighter than the sun descended upon them, and touched its hands upon their heads, and it said “Thou art worthy of my aid. Be healed.”
And it came to pass that the creatures were healed, and were filled with new strength, that they should make it back to safety without incident.
What is that scary light? How far is the car anyway?
Looks like there going to have to run like there are mortars being fired at them (because there may as well be)
“when the daughter in law begins to rely on mother in law”
I think Lily’s expression in panel 2 is well done. You can envision what’s going through her head as she stares at where she had been sleeping just moments before the strike.
Why does it look like there’s something sticking out of the back of Woo’s head in panel 3? This makes me nervous…
I think in panel 2 that’s her tree (home) and in panel 4 the light came from Sandra’s car…. That’s what i think 😀
@ Greenwood Goat:
And then Cloud shows up with a butter knife and the mother-ship explodes out of sheer terror.
Called it.
Well, it doesn’t seem like amnesia, so that’s a relief.
@ Robin:
looks like woo’s head is bleeding and by panel 4 he appears to be unconscious.
not good.
O.O
That had better be Sandra…
Woo is now Woozy. Hope he gets better soon!
All salute the usefulness of the rescue technique now known as the coonyback ride.
@ firedome:
Tricky things, head wounds. I’ve had a few – not fun!
To strike, thunder needs to break resistance of air all the way. That’s what makes it destructive.
However, wherever it rains, you have water all the way. In other words, the contact is already being made, there’s no such resistance. You can have bits of electricity going through them, so small you won’t even feel them.
What i’m saying is : during a storm, wherever it’s raining, thunder cannot happen. Thunder will only occur in areas of the storm where it’s not raining (though rain can be passing by before thunder strikes).
On that panel, fire should be starting alright, because there’s no rain to stop it. Does not mean it will spread though, like some said before the ground is quite soaked by now.
That was all for the stormy thought moment. 😉
@ Darth Killer:
My only nitpick at your comment is that it’s not thunder. It would be lightning. Pokemon has made that difficult for a lot of people (including me) because of its Thunderbolts and Thundershocks.
@ LongshotLink:
Sorry. And My being french also tricks me into doing that mistake. ^^’
Panel 2 would be a Perfect warning about taking cover under a tree in a thunderstorm.
Darth Killer wrote:
You are mistaken. Lightning can and does strike while it’s raining.
When it rains you do not have “water all the way”. Rain doesn’t fall in an unbroken stream like water from a faucet. It falls as individual drops, all separated by air. Even in the heaviest rainstorm, there’s a lot more air than water between the clouds and the ground, so there’s plenty of electrical resistance.
There’s a term for lightning that strikes when there’s no rain: “dry lightning”. (Look it up on Wikipedia.) The fact that such a term exists is ample evidence that lightning often strikes when it is raining.
Mikey Z wrote:
Actually, it would more likely be her dad. He’s not about to let her go looking, after all.
@ DontLookAtMe:
I was mistaken about the thunder/lightning vocabulary, but i assure you lightning cannot strike where it’s raining, for the reason i’ve given.
Of course, rain is not a continous stream of water, but compare the air resistance when electricity has to travel a few dozen nanometers (not all water drops are big enough to be visible, but all count), to the one when it has to travel over a kilometer ?
The term dry lightning is about stroms that don’t rain at all. But a storm moves fast in the sky, winds in upper troposphere being much stronger than those on ground level. When one cloud of the storm rains, that particular cloud cannot emit lightning. But after the storm moves a bit (winds), the neighbooring cloud can emit lightning if it’s not raining. On the ground, you’ll notice it by no longer having rain right above you. My guesss is that’s what happenned on that particular case.
Darth Killer wrote:
Darth Killer, you obviously never have been in a car in a heavy thunderstorm, because otherwise you would have seen plenty of lightning bolts hitting the ground in the middle of the rain.
I have seen hundreds of lightning bolts hit the ground in heavy rain during my lifetime…
As to the reasons whey you think that lightning can’t happen during rain they are flawed by several reasons.
1. When it rains all the raindrops are approximately the same size. There can be no microscopic raindrops between the big ones. The reason for that is that large raindrops fall faster than small ones (the surface to weight ratio means less effect of air resistance on large drops) so any small drops will quickly be absorbed by the larger ones.
2. The distance between drops is measured in millimeters even in very heavy rain. Postulating nanometers is simply ridiculous
3. It is the overall resistance between the cloud and the ground that matters, not the resistance between each drop. That resistance is lowered by the rain, but not even close to a degree that would allow electricity to flow freely to the ground without lightning. The rain actually facilitates the lightning, so more but less powerful bolts will hit the ground (I am not sure how strong that effect is though)
4. The thundercloud itself consist of tiny airborne drops of water, so if what you said was true then IC lightning (in cloud lightning) would be impossible. But IC lightning actually make up the majority of the lightning during a thunderstorm…
@ Kris:
I’ve been in the middle of it plenty of time.
When you see lightning from your car, unless it explodes in front of you and sends you flying away, it means it hit miles away from you, not where you were. Don’t forget light travels way faster than sound, which still travels extremly fast !
Strangely, you can look for any photo taken by lightning hunters, sometimes they catch one blowing themselves away like that, and it’s never raining on them when it happens…
Then, drops tend to split while falling. That’s why they are of any and all size at the same time. If they were all same size, say big size for instance, breathing the air in the middle of a rain would not feel watery like it usually do.
For the distance, because of those splittings, it can easily become that small. But even pretending it sticks to milimeters, that’s still nothing comparable to kilometers, like the cloud-ground typical distance. And greater distance to travel through air means higher electrical resistance to overcome. That’s precisely what makes lightning so dangerously powerful : a whole kilometer of air to travel. If it’s a few milimeters, then small discharges can be done all the time, not even enough to do sparks, but still enough to relieve the cloud.
It’s like trying to send electricity between 2 electrode standing in the air, or trying the same with the electrodes showered with water. In the 2nd case, it will be easier to make current go through (albeit not very efficiently…).
Finally, i know about IC, but the cloud being charged up as a whole, i don’t see why IC is impossible because of the cloud being made of water droplets…
Anyway, i believe i’ve given enough evidence of my point, with none being actually proven wrong so far. And while i’m still open for the debate, maybe here is not the right place.
@ Darth Killer:
Given that I HAVE seen my neighbors house get a hole blown in it from lightning in the middle of a storm (if they had been home they probably would have died, given it was their bedroom and it was strong enough to blow a good part of their wall into the street), I can assure you that lightning can, does, and will strike where it is raining. Have you never looked at a weather channel before? Lightning is heaviest where the rain is heaviest because that is where the most electric potential difference has been stored.
@ Robin:
It’s “just” a bit of blood from where he was “TOK”ked in the noggin by a bit of high speed wood. We saw it ricochet off already.
He’s bleeding, might be concussed, might even have a slight skull fracture, but I don’t see anything “sticking out” 🙂
BTW, though I wouldn’t suggest you don’t get lightning during a rainstorm, most of the thunderstorms I’ve experienced in the past seem to PRECEDE the rain. The clouds roll in, the air gets heavy and charged, there’s the flashes and cracks as they discharge, and then the water begins to fall … itself evening up the charges and leaking away the potential.
(Of course, if said charge is especially strong, there’s no reason the lightning can’t still strike … I just can’t remember the last time I saw / heard it happening _at the same time_ as the accompanying rain)
((And, well, this IS a pretty wild storm from the look of things))
@ Darth Killer@ Darth Killer:
I am a person that really enjoys storms, so take it from somebody that actually go struck by lightning while standing in the rain enjoying it, lightning can strike when it’s raining.
@ Robin:
I think it’s a blood spot and matted fur. Where the shrapnel hit him when the tree got zapped.
@ Robin:
he got hit in the head with a rock when the lightning struck the tree. its just a little bloody looking is all. head wounds do usually bleed a lot. he should be fine but with the way the rock struck him, he may need to rest for a while. it’ll definitely smart for some time.
Darth Killer wrote:
Nobody has to “disprove” anything, since the only support for your idea is your laughable bullshit about raindrops being nanometers apart. Honestly, I don’t know why you would expect anyone to take you seriously after that. Even in very heavy rain, you’re exaggerating the spacing by more than half a dozen orders of magnitude. If you were really surrounded by raindrops that tightly packed, you would be underwater.