A real live laser show....with sound effects...!

[nala]

www.dailypost.co.uk/news/local-news/watch-north-wales-lightning-strike-7144583

From 19:00hrs 8/10/14 till 06:00hrs 9/10/14 we had the most horrendous thunder storm...with lashing rain and hail...!

Plus the lightening...which lit up the sky in all directions.........followed by the earth quaking thunder....!!!

Some great stills taken of lightening on facebook....a good one with the Stena Ferry....and lightening in the back ground and above it.

Been like a zombie all day,didn't sleep much..

[nala]

www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/look-north-wales-flood-alert-7907735

[deerphil]

The power of a good electric storm is amazing. They make you feel
very small and insignificant don't they.

I remember some years ago at work - A huge bolt of lightening came
out of nowhere, deflected off an aircraft, and hit a field close to
where we were working, we all saw it clearly ( and heard it ! )and
raced over there. A hole about 2 feet across and a foot deep had
four zigzag lines in the turf radiating out about 20 yards in all directions.
At the end of three lines lay three dead sheep and a crow at the fourth one.
You could smell roast lamb.

Twenty minutes before we had walked through that very spot with a group
of school kids on a guided tour. Very frightening !

It didn't even rain and it was just the one isolated lightening bolt.
It was like the aircraft had dropped a bomb - weird ! something I will
never forget.

[nala]

Some years ago i was looking under the bonnet of a car..........
Behind me about 50 feet away was a transformer on a pole,it was a humid hazy day......when it was hit by lightening....couldn't believe it..!
Again,no warning.....?
What a bang..!
Never moved so fast in my life,i picked up my legs and ran........

Mind you iv'e been fishing off boats when a storm was brewing,the rods were literally buzzing.....so we lay them down lower into the boat,buzzing stopped....and we headed in..!
Keeping our heads down....