That reminds me an experience I had in Sardinia island few years ago.
Where I recorded a stunning incoming storm on a top of bare mountain.
The scenery was stunning and the dramatic weather was a once in a
lifetime beauty too see. I had the luck to record the whole event, from
clear skyes to very heavy black clouds all over us. Thunderbolt were
flashing all over us (me and my wife) and I realised they were too
close, hitting the little tree plantation few meters away from us. It
was so close that also in the recording we can hear the snap of the
lightning hitting a tree top. I safely stopped recording, even if I was
ready to loose my microphones under the rain to get that moment. Just on
time to get shelter in the car and record one of the most violent hail
rain I ever experienced, ad recorded too form the safety of my cockpit.
Still today I am glad my survival instinct got over my full fascination
of the event tat made me forget I was in a real danger.
You can listen to that peculiar recording here:
http://www.ecsound.net/pages/projects/soundart/field_recordings/sardegna/en=
g_sardegna.html
The very last one called " Temporale a Punta Curongiu" where at 1:17 you
can hear the snap of the thunderbolt on the left. Same at 1:46 and 2:18.
The noise on the background is not the hiss of the bad quality of my
mics and recorder. It is the noise of the rain (hail) incoming from the
valley underneath, that give you an idea on how violent it was.
Emanuele
On 16/12/2016 22:54, [naturerecordists] wrote:
>
> I read the section on recording lightning and the advice is incorrect.
> People are in danger of being struck if they are outside of a building
> or vehicle and that can be anywhere. Two people were struck in Rocky
> Mountain National Park last year and they were at a scenic overlook.
> Where people are also struck is standing under a tree or under a roof
> with a structure that is open at the sides. More people struck
> standing by a lake than out on the lake in a boat. When lighting
> strikes the ground it will travel horizontally until it hits
> something. Other than inside a building or vehicle the safest place is
> in a ditch that is below the level of the surrounding area.
>
> Safest for audio recording to put the mic or mics outside a car and
> run the cable inside the car and watch and record the lighting and
> thunder while safely inside the car. And I stress inside the car. One
> person that was struck and died last year was hit while they were
> changing the windshield wipers on their vehicle.
>
"While a picture is worth a thousand words, a
sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie Krause.
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