Outside right now there's about 2 lightning flashes every second. Most of it is sheet, but every so often this giant fork appears behind the trees. One hell of a storm! It's kinda freaky, like a natural strobe light.

Post your lightning experiences

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Back in '98 during the big ice storm in quebec we had a thunderstorm. Nothing too spectacular as far as thunderstorms go, but it felt really weird having one in the middle of january with all that ice around.

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Back in 97, we were sleeping over at grandpa's farm. It was like 11:00pm when a huge thunderstorm arrived. I looked out the window and a lightning struck a tree about 5-8 meters from the house. Thought i had a heart attack.

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It's been going at the same intensity for about 30 minutes now. Suddenly glad I'm not epileptic

Live - Lightning Crashes just came up on Winamp. How ironic.

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I was sleeping in a tent with my girlfriend on a holiday, and a thunderstorm arrived. We went to the main facility, when we came back, out tent had a tree on it.

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Wow, that's a bit lucky.

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Not really, seeing as I left my radio in there. I had t find back all the pieces..

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And the thought never occured to you that maybe you should shut down and unplug your computer? Even if you have a surge protector, it wont help much if your house is hit directly. Lighting hit a tree near my cousins house a few years ago, and messed up three of his computers, despite the fact that they all had surge protectors.

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lightning hit a tree across the street from my house and fried my external modem last year.

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Lightning pretty much never strikes near here. Even more so since I live very close to the second tallest man-made object in Finland (a very tall radio-tower).

Yeah but then what would I be doing? Rain is too damn loud on the roof to watch TV

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I was backpacking a few years back in New Mexico and I saw a hole open up in a lightning storm right at sun set. The result was an amazing sunset surrounded by by dark clouds with periodic lightning.

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I once summoned lightning to my fingers and killed a leemer with it......that was a crazy night...

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I always do the counting thing to see how far away the lightning is. It gets fun when you can't even get to 1.

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One fourth of July, a couple friends and I went outside of the city a bit to this high hill from which you could see like 3 different semi-large shows going on at once. It wasn't raining where we were, but it was over the city and through the dusk and the pollution the lightning was bright red.

Another time I was in New Orleans and there was a big lightning storm. A friend and I were in the french quarter having coffee and somehow thought it would be possible to catch lightning with a polaroid camera. Out of 2 rolls [boxes?] we got 1 picture with a little lightning in the corner. Fun though, even though the New Orleans rain smells terrible because of that huge lake nearby full of lime [forget the name..].

i live in Orlando, so lightning is no big thing anymore. the big oak tree in my front yard and the one in my neighbor's yard got struck by lightning about a week apart and had to be taken down. pretty cool having lightning hit a tree 10 feet from my room. it sounded like a bomb, i hid like a child for a few minutes.

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My dad says before I was born he was sitting out on the front porch watching a storm once and a bolt of lightning hit a tree in a yard down the street. According to him, shortly before it happened he could feel the static and the dog got up and started barking and going crazy, and he could see the hair on the dog stand up...

True story. Or so he claims, at least.

Oh yeah, and three years ago we were sitting in class and there was a massive storm (I believe the power was out, too)... anyway, there was this massive crack that came from outside, deafening everybody, and when I looked across the room at that instant I'm pretty sure I actually saw a spark or an arc come from the hinges on the door (though it was a while ago, although I'm pretty sure I saw it, it might not be true... I know it sounds far fetched)...
Anyway, after the storm was over we were told a transformer box right outside was hit by lightning

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Thunderstorms in Missoula, MT are just about the most incredible thing you'll ever see.

It lights up the entire Bitterroot Valley.

Lightning is my absolute most favourite animal, but the area I live in has trees, streetlights and houses everywhere so I can't get a good view of the sky, all I ever see is the flash of light, never the lightning bolt. I want to live in an apartment, just for the view.

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I think during one storm lightning hit a transformer box at the end of the street, not fully certain though, it would've been branch that hit it. However something cause to catch on fire and you could see the blaze over the houses. (don't have a direct view) No houses were damaged though.

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ha, u all are wussys. iv been in a hurrican. im stilling waiting for the hurrican to run up right of the mouth of the mississippi to destory the leveys so the river shifts to its natural corse and stop costal erosion in louisisana. in the last 50 years louisiana has lost a land mass the size of delaware. we lose a football field of land every 15secs because the river cant change to move soil to other parts of the state.

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Hope you enjoyed it, Spork! The news said it was a 1-in-100 years storm.

The only time I've been scared by lightning is at the CSIRO. They have a huge generator which produces bolts 10 metres long. That may be small but I was terrified standing next to it.

I once got a small shock through my mouse at the same time lightning struck. It was more intense than a static shock but less than an electric fence shock.

yeah, hurricanes aren't too much fun. i've been in one directly and had a few run-ins with the outer parts of them. that's definitely and intense storm.

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Every time my family had a BBQ a thunderstorm would come out. I think we had are some kinds of lower weather-gods.

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oh ya. well ive been in a tomato. it kills me 30 times a day lol. tomatos sukc their was 1 in the Wiz of oz that movie was cool lol,

and 1 time it raned so hard I FARTED!!!!!!11111one1one ROFLMOAL