On Sun, 4 Sep 2005 06:58:27 +0100, Paul Hyett wrote:

I saw a tree hit near where i live. The oak must have been 200
years old before it was killed by a lightning strike.

Must have been *some* bolt!

You'd have thought that trees that live as long as oaks do, would
get hit several times in their life.

Well there is being hit and being hit... The recent photos are fairly
typical of a decent strike hitting a tree. The sap explosively boils
and blows the bark off.

I wouldn't be surprised to see that tree dead within a year or so. The
winter damp and the dormant period just around the corner, time enough
for disease and rot to get into those wounds.

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