seems I remember seeing footage of this happening in the Vietnam war, it was somebody famous that was the pilot of the plane, anybody have a clue? or maybe it was just an onboard ship fire and the planes missile cooked off?
As written above, the energy dissipates in the ground and it can creates nice melted shapes in the sand but also along the bark of a tree or other construction. The point is, the electricity doesn't really travel from the cloud to the ground. Imagine you shortcut a battery. What happens? Well, all the energy will be gone. It will result as heat energy and your shortcutting cable risk to melt down. Likewise, during a lightning bolt, the electrical energy dissipates as heat energy. It is so hot that the air in the bolt turns into plasma, hotter than the surface of the sun! When it reaches the ground the cable of the battery shortcut, as illustrated, becomes the entire ground, thus offering an incredible amount of mass for the energy to dissipate.
Mild CO poisoning will cause headache, nausea and vomiting. When it starts getting worse, you will start feeling dizzy, it will be hard to concentrate, confusion tiredness. When you've been in exposure to it for too long, it can cause, seizures, comas and death. I would get the detector out pretty soon, you don't want to be messing around with this.
