pic: Not the end of the Rainbow, but ....

[KathieK]

Originally Posted by skimoose

This was the lightning storm that rolled through on 7/28/06.

That was a nasty series of storms last Friday. I was surrounded by lightning on all four sides as I drove home from work (but no rain on the whole drive home until I got to my street). There was a lot of cloud-to-ground as well as cloud-to-cloud lightning. I have to drive under some high tension wires twice in my short trip home and both times I was praying that lightning would not choose to hit those as I passed underneath.

[Nica F.]

that is pretty scary. was there a lot of that around?
i havent been in a major thunderstorm in my life.

[JaneYoung]

Severe thunderstorms can be dangerous, frightening, exhilarating - and they can encourage a healthy respect for Nature quickly.

Here in Texas we get blue northers - the sky will turn a funny blue and the winds will change. Usually in the fall but it can happen any time. Usually there is a severe drop in temperature, sometimes storms.

I've lived in the same house for 20 years and lightning strikes all around us. We have huge sycamores in our neighborhood - towering trees. Lightning took the top out of our neighbor's tree a few years back and laid it across our roof and across the length of the lawn with 20 feet of the tree base still standing.