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 HN> I say the  driveway was sand...well so was the yard and the road as
 HN> well....Why the  large area of impact rather than a typical fulgurite I
 HN> can't explain.

 ML> The layer of sand must have been thin, separated from the rest
 ML> of the sand or clay by some insulator - perhaps air?

 ML> It was very
 HN> thin perhaps only 1mm thick, and too brittle and thin to even bear
 HN> it's own  weight.

My theory is that the top layer of sand was damp, and therefore
conductive, while dry, insulating sand was beneath it.  Do recall
whether there had been dry weather, followed by a dew or light rain
immediately prior to the lightning strike?

Yesterday you came to mind, as result of a BBC TV program on the
forthcoming level 9 Richter earthquake and megatsunami which will hit
your neck of the woods.  The last one was in 1700, and the one before
in about 1400.  The slippage along the Cascadia fault line is expected
to take 5 minutes to travel the 500 km from one end to the other.  In
Seattle you will first get a vertical movement, followed later by a
one metre lateral shift, then a series of earth waves come, and
persist for some 5 minutes.  Older, masonry buildings will
disintegrate fairly quickly, but it is not known how well the
steel-framed sky-scrapers will survive repeated oscillations of 3 or 4
metres amplitude at the top.

The tsunami will hit the coast a half hour after the earthquake,
although Seattle and Vancouver will be shielded from that, being far
enough inland and behind Vancouver Island, which will be wiped clean.

I was wondering, do you have practise runs of survival procedures for
residents, in particular for students in older school buildings?

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.05
 
      Title: Earthquake Cake/a
 Categories: Cakes, Newsgroups, May.rec
      Yield: 4 Servings
 
      1 c  Coconut
      1 c  Chopped pecans
      1 pk German chocolate cake mix
      1 lb Confectioners' sugar
    1/2 c  Butter or margarine
           ;melted
      8 oz Cream cheese
           ;softened
 
  Spread coconut and pecans on bottom of greased 9x13 pan. Make cake
  batter according to package directions. Pour onto coconut and pecans.
  Mix sugar, butter and cream cheese together and pour on top of cake
  batter. Do not spread. Bake at 350 F for 40-50 minutes.
  
  From: "Johnson" <recipes@caymandesigns.
 
MMMMM
 

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