FYI Electrified

[Amata]

Back story:

Charged Atmosphere Has Tourists' Hair Standing Up | Weather.com

weather.com

A video emerged from the Kumtag Desert in China showing tourists with their hair standing on end as if part of a wacky science experiment. A desert guide told Newsflare that it was the first time he ever encountered anything like it.

What looks like a weird, fun, phenomenon is actually a very dangerous situation, according to experts.

Any thunderstorm cloud can bring electrical charges with it, which is how lightning forms. Collisions between water droplets, ice crystals and hail create static charges. When lightning is about to strike near you, the electrically charged atmosphere can cause your hair to stand up.

 

[The anarchist]

Mother nature has quite a sense of humor😂👍

 

[Amata]

Mother nature has quite a sense of humor😂👍

She does too!

 

[JG Ballard]

Damn, was waiting for the bright flash and loud bang at the end and the charred carcasses littering the sand like a used kitty litter box.

 

[Amata]

Damn, was waiting for the bright flash and loud bang at the end and the charred carcasses littering the sand like a used kitty litter box.

There was a power outage.

Patience, perhaps next time!

 

[DokraOwl]

This is a widely known phenomenon that happens when lightning is about to strike, they just got lucky it didn't as their bodies were essentially acting as lightning rods.

 

[Nun Soup]

 

[Harumph]

They should have stayed ohm. After all, there's no place like it.

 

[CunningLinguist]

Mother nature has quite a sense of humor😂👍

And so does the children's mother. There's undoubtedly a high risk of a lightning strike, and she has the whole family out there.

 

[hedgerow]

i hope their brains short-circuit

 

[SadBabycakes]

They look like sea urchins

 

[Amata]

And so does the children's mother. There's undoubtedly a high risk of a lightning strike, and she has the whole family out there.

She was not aware, nor was the guide, I gather from the back story.

 

[The Backshot King]

Fuckin zipper heads

 

[Shatterskull]

This is a widely known phenomenon that happens when lightning is about to strike, they just got lucky it didn't as their bodies were essentially acting as lightning rods.

Same thing happened at my house. You could smell the ozone so strongly first then we started getting static shocks, then the girls hair stood up not as intense and then BOOM!!! Loudest sound I have ever heard and all of us were deaf for about 10 minutes some a bit longer. It hit a tree leaning right against the house and the living room we were in. Split a 35' oak tree to the ground. It didn't fall over I had to get it professionally removed. Ya happened 20 years ago but I am still friends with the 9 people there, I guess it bonded us kind of and we still talk about it more than I like 😂

 

[Pajeet]

Hmmm how does a fried chink smell?