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A LETTER from my daughter in Jamaica refers to her house being affected electrically in a curious manner. She was sitting on the verandah during a thunderstorm when she heard ” a funny sound like the buzzing of a bumble-bee”, and saw that the verandah gutter was emitting sparks and smoke. Running to the kitchen to get a bucket of water, she found the legs of the stove, where they rested on the stone floor, spluttering sparks. She threw a bucket of water on them, and in doing so ” got quite a bad shock and the bucket was torn out of my hands”. On returning to the verandah, the gutter was still emitting sparks.
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TYLER, W. Electrification of a Roof during a Thunderstorm. Nature 138, 724 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138724a0
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