I was preparing to film a video of a thunderstorm. I was at my computer showing a radar loop of the approaching storm, when suddenly an extremely close lightning strike occurs right over my home and startles the daylights out of me. The strike was so close that the electrmagnetic field generated by the lightning, distorts the video and actually freezes it for a few seconds. I lose a few seconds of sound and picture. I then run to the window, angry that I wasn't there at the time of the lightning strike, when a second very close lightning strike occurs. This next one although loud, it was not as close or as loud as the first.

L'arrivo del temporale a Roma Via Grottarossa / Via Cassia 23 aprile 2009 ore 18.54

i love thunderstorms...just wanted to share with yall what i heard.

23 aprile 2009 temporale a Roma, ore 19.00 zona Grottarossa/Via Cassia

A severe thunderstorm northeast of Guymon, Oklahoma on May 15, 2003. The strong inflow created by this supercell monster is obvious in the adjacent wheat field. At the 43 second mark, note the distant light on the horizon goes out due to a power outage. Thirty minutes later this storm produced a tornado in Liberal, Kansas. The storm was taped from County Road 19, a paved east-west road between Adams and Optima, and a north-south dirt road labeled Mile 45 and also N1000Rd. I was parked on the dirt road just north of the intersection and the camera was aimed west and northwest. Severe thunderstorms involve rapidly lifting air which is sucked in mostly at or just above ground level. On this storm I was on the southeast side which is generally where the strongest inflow will be due to the prevailing winds on the high plains. On this day the winds were southeasterly long before the storms formed, hence the wind from that direction was amplified by the storm's influence. I was standing on the lee side of my car, hanging onto the tripod to prevent it from being blown away, and my legs were being stung by blowing sand from the dirt road on which I was parked. A longer and higher resolution version of this chase is now available at: www.youtube.com

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This intence lightning storm slamed in the my area knocking out power to Wetaskiwin for a few hours. Shot from Millet, 9 miles north of Wetaskiwin.

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