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http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/021025/168/2iqdw.html&e=1&ncid=996
Teammates gather around Colombian soccer player Hermam Gaviria, 32, after he was struck by lightning during practice in Cali, Colombia, 185 miles southwest of Bogota Thursday, Oct. 24, 2002. Gaviria, who competed in the 1994 World Cup was killed Thursday when he was struck by lightning during practice. (AP Photo/El Pais)
I can hear a few distant rumbles now.
Flash floods and lightning strikes hit Fife
by Michael Alexander
May 27 2017, 10.53pm
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Firefighters work hard to unblock drains after flash floods in Ceres Road, Cupar
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Flash flooding brought dramatic scenes to a Fife street on Saturday evening as a prolonged period of intense thunderstorms left drains unable to cope with residents fearing their homes may be flooded.
Emergency sandbags were placed at several front doors and at the entrance to a school playground.
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Emergency flood defences at front doors in Ceres Road, Cupar
Thankfully, as firefighters brought in pumps and worked hard to clear drains, householders in Ceres Road, Cupar, were able to breathe a sigh of relief as the rains eased and the localised flooding subsided. The road was temporarily closed but re-opened by 10pm.
One resident said: “We were really worried because we got flooded eight years ago.”
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Ceres Road in Cupar was closed until the localised flooding could be cleared
Another resident said: “We walked across there five minutes before. I’ve never seen rain like it!”
Meanwhile, a block of flats at Abbey Park Avenue in St Andrews was struck by lightning.
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Firefighters check the roof of the flats at Abbey Park Avenue in St Andrews after it was struck by lightning
Firefighters attended but no fire was found.
There were also reports of localised flooding at the Old Course – in stark contrast to the blistering heat when former US President Barack Obama visited on Friday.
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Localised flooding at the Old Course in St Andrews
The Met Office issued a yellow warning for rain in south-east Scotland on Saturday morning which expired at 11pm on Saturday night.
Weather forecasters had warned that scattered heavy and thundery showers would develop in the afternoon, some accompanied by hail and thunder.
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Dramatic skies persisted after the worst of the thunder storms passed
It was predicted this could lead to to some localised flooding, especially on the roads with some travel disruption possible.
The intense thunderstorms with multiple fork lightning swept through Fife between 5pm and 8pm before easing.
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Dramatic skies over Fife as the weather cleared into the North Sea
Showers were predicted to die away through Saturday evening into Sunday
Nice capture and great boatHere is a little movie I made of a lightning strike I captured last summer from my boat.
In the slow motion, there is some interesting things going on, but I'm not sure how much has to do with the camera, or what? Please let me know what you think.
have you ever seen or heard of lightening ricocheting off of water ?
See the 1st-Ever High-Speed Footage of Lightning Striking a Building
At first, the flashes of lightning appear like glowing tentacles spreading across the night sky. Then, an enormous and blinding flash illuminates the frame. But this isn't just any footage of a lightning storm — it's the first time that high-speed video of lightning hitting a building has been captured, according to a new study.
In addition to making for a dramatic show, the research could help improve lightning rods, a technology that hasn't changed in 200 years, the scientists said.
The video shows a tree of electrical discharges branching from a storm cloud and descending toward the ground. As the discharges near the ground, a weaker electrical column starts climbing from a lightning rod on a multistory building. When the rising discharge meets one of the downward leaders, as scientists call the sky-to-ground dischargers, a powerful flash blinds the camera's view. ...
Last year was my first year on the water, so I've never seen it myself. And I'm not sure I've ever heard of an actual example being verified, but I've always heard that a bolt hitting water can do almost anything, not just dissipate like you might think would happen in a large body of water.
As a layman on the subject, I think seawater, especially, is pretty conductive, but there is no clear path to ground in a body of water, so the electricity can take any random path. So, imho, there is a possibility that it could've ricocheted from the water to land, or building, searching for ground.
But please, don't take my very un-knowledgeable word for it! I'm sure there are lots of members who have a much better understanding than me on the subject!
However, lightning also does really weird things, so who knows what's possible?
Here are quite a few true lightning stories. (and lots of other nifty lightning facts, etc on the side of the page.)
http://www.ec.gc.ca/foudre-lightning/default.asp?lang=En&n=9C477A05-1
.. bugger ..This was on Reddit earlier this morning, consensus there was that was a demolition charge.
The white flash is the fuse line. So, apparently not lightning.
This kind of thing, It's Not Unusual.Even God is a critic.
Lightning strikes have forced Sir Tom Jones to cancel his comeback concert in York.
The 78-year-old star had been due to return to performing on Friday, with a show at York Racecourse after a series of cancelled concerts due to illness.
York Racecourse apologised and said it took the decision to cancel "given the atrocious weather conditions".
Singer James Arthur also had to cancel his open-air gig in Scarborough on Thursday because of lightning.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-44988512