my boyfriend accidentally aimed a little high and got some in my eye this morning, and my eye was red and burning for like an hour and it's been about 9 hours since and it's still sore. Should I be concerned?
The fire dept can issue the school a fine. Usually after a dept responds to a location on a consistent basis for false alarms, the department then may issue a fine or try to fix what is continuing to cause the false activation.the fine is usually just to say hey, fix the problem or your gonna pay for it. There are some good points in your story. 1.) your school should practice fire safety and evacuations all the time. 2) if your school is using smoke detectors and or a combination of smoke/heat type detectors, then at least you know they work.school administration should be happy. 3) its nice to see that the janitors pulled the alarms to get evacuations going early, rather that wasting time and endangering people trying to dick around with the fireif there was one. (and if they did in fact pull the alarm). Anyway, yes the dept can issue a fine but it would be pretty low of them to issue one for something like your case. Malicious false alarm.like intentionally pulling the alarm is a different story. What if a fire engine broadsided a car while responding and killed someone when it was a false alarm? I wont rant and rave about fire dept stuff, but to answer the question..yes they can issue a fine, hopefully they wont.
Well don't know your geographic location but here in Central New York, it's Approx $ 2.49 Per Gallon And yes you can have a propane tank outside, ours is stored in an outside tank serviced and maintained by our supplier. you may want to have a commercial set up and forget it, that is if you plan on using your Garage as a business, less hassle for you.
Lightning travels at roughly one third the speed of light. At that speed, your height is negligible. Since the ground was wet, the charge was dispersed so it is unlikely there will be a mark. If you felt the static charge, technically you were hit by the lightning.
Lightning doesn't always strike the tallest object (this changes a little when the object is 1000+ ft. tall). It has a greater chance of striking a taller object, but it doesn't have to. In your case, it didn't. Consider yourself extremely lucky. Now are you sure that you weren't actually hit by the splash current? There is absolutely no pain or anything? You didn't feel a kick when the strike happened, other than you jumping? The static charge feeling you're describing can't be an actual charge as the human body doesn't store electricity for that long. Also, holding or wearing metal has little influence on the probability of getting struck by lightning, unless you're pointing a long object upwards. While it's true that metal is a good conductor of electricity lightning just burned through miles of an insulator to get this far. It doesn't care what is and what isn't a conductor at this point. Whatever attempts to resist lightning will get heated until it DOES conduct the current. If you want to investigate, you can go over there (when the conditions are safe) and see if you can find any burn marks on any surface where the strike terminated. If it struck the sea, you won't find anything.
