The summer
of 2000 has been a wet and cool summer for Virginia. During August,
each day would end with a fierce electrical storm. Here are pictures
taken from a video of our front yard during the August 7th storm where
lightning started from our front yard THREE TIMES within a 2 minute period.
Since the lightning started from the ground, there wasn't any damage.
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208-see the lighting at the bottom going up?
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Two Minutes Later
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231 - This is clearly between the neighbor's tree and me!
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above is what I saw through the view finder. The other two strikes
were only discovered by going frame by frame through the video.
Scary.
A bit of trivia:
Did you know that the speed of sound is approximately 1/5 mile per second?
It is actually 331.45m/sec at 0 degrees C. So when you see lightning
and then hear the thunder, you can approximate how close the lightning
was. The same holds true for fireworks.
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