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The most intense barrage of lightning you may ever see

Friday, 1 April 2022, 19:40 BFH Uncategorized 20

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  6. That looks like hellzapopping. We had a hellacious thunderstorm years ago where lightning struck a house a block away from my hose. The lightning came down thru the electrical wiring on an old guy’s house and blew the hell out of his electrical system and his wall phone. It made one hell of a loud boom coming that close within a block of my house. And another time we had lightning strike less than a hundred yards away from my car when we were going huckleberry picking. I had to stop the car and pull over because it was raining so hard and we could feel the ground vibrating violently when that lightning bolt hit.

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  7. We had the same lighting in Mobile when that storm came in. The thunder was weird sounding too, loud & reverberating in surround sound like. Maybe that cell was reversed polarity.

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  8. That’s pretty common on the upper Gulf Coast of Texas, but the most incredible display of lightning I ever saw was when my sons were little. We had spent the day at Sea World in San Antonio and were leaving after closing time. Walking through the gigantic parking lot, there was a display of lightning so continuous and violent that we stood there stunned at what we were watching. It looked like a dancing, everchanging, non-stop spider web of electricity that made us think it was going to wrap itself around us and jerk us all up into the heavens. It filled the entire western sky from the horizon to straight above us. I’ve never seen anything like it since. The weird thing is that we never heard any thunder, just silence, even though it looked very close to us. In Texas, we call that heat lightning. Scary stuff.

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  9. Ghost and I went through a worse lightening storm then that back in 1993 Oklahoma. The lighting was hitting the ground on both side of the car. We were both screaming like little kids. That sh-t does not happen in The Bronx!

    God Bless us all!

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  12. That was cool.

    Once in D.C. I saw a regular summer storm, but I was on the top floor of my apartment building so when I looked out I could see the gables and chimneys and wrought iron decorative do dads on the roofs. Very Pirates of the Caribbean.

    The only other lightning storm I’ve seen (lets face it, Arizona doesn’t get a lot of storms) was when I first moved here. Late night, pitch black, lighting moved through the area. I have a window above muh bed so I turned around and looked out. 75 miles away the mountains in Flagstaff were getting hit. I saw nothing….and then a small ball of light. Then another and then some more. It looked like Flagstaff was getting nuked. That far away all you could see was a ball of light glow through the clouds.
    Went on for ages. Never seen it since.

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  14. My Dad and I, and my Mother, and my Brother used to love thunder storms. We used to sit out on the covered deck and watch them.

    One evening we were sitting out on the deck… the breeze was freshening… There was a flash of blinding light and the boom was instant and, I don’t know, crap your trousers and run in a circle. Because that’s what we all did.

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  15. We found the tree the lighting struck about a week later. Hard by the chicken shed. There was a 2 inch wide strip of bark, about 40 feet long, laying on the ground. The tree was dead as dogshit.

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  16. “The weird thing is that we never heard any thunder, just silence, even though it looked very close to us. In Texas, we call that heat lightning.”

    I love saltwater fishing, at night, when you can see heat lightning way off in the distance. It’s normal lightning, but so far away you can’t hear the thunder. Sometimes, I almost stop fishing for a few minutes as it can be so calming and neat to watch.

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  17. We get 3 or 4 of those a season at least in NE.

    The now “weather”, no longer tornado, siren generally mean, get kids and pets to the basement, grab a beer and go out to the driveway to watch.

    Also, I believe it was that group of storms that spawned a new term I had never seen before on The Weather Channel. Did anyone else see the map of “Mobile Home Density” in the track of the storm?

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    That’s funny right there. I don’t care who you are!

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