Hi Clint,

In 2004 during Bus Benefit there was severe thunderstorm warnings and
Tornado Warnings. I and few others stayed up late kind of keeping a safe
watch over what was going on. There was just crazy lightning in the sky. It
gives me goose bumps thinking about how ominous that night was. When I
decided to go to bed my wife and two kids were sleeping down below so I
crawled up in the upper bunk. As I was getting in my sleeping bag all of a
sudden I could feel my hair start to get statically charged and stand up on
end. And in a split second a lighting bolt hit the tree we were camping next
to. The flash was so close that I could feel the white heat through the
canvas on the pop-top and it felt like I stuck my face in an oven. The rest
of the night I laid there with one eye open waiting for the next crack of
lightning to hit me. Sleeping on the top is not a recommended practice
during a severe thunderstorm.

>Now lightning is another story...  Sleeping up top during a lightning storm
doesn't seem like a good idea to me.

>Clint

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Todd Olson

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