I-75 Lightning Strike

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  • Added: 22-May-06

Lightning strikes interstate median just a few dozen feet from the car where the video was shot.

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I-75 Lightning Strike

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  • looks more like

    the reflection of the bolt either on the window or the camera lens. If you se carefully on every lightning video, where you can see clearly the bolt, there are reflections because of the form of the lens, so a lightning caught on the upper right will reflect on the lower left, and so on. I caught some on tape last week and that effect happened, it's kind of a shame since it distracts the view of the real bolt when taking still shots.

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  • First, let's all remember!

    Most lightening is released FROM THE GROUND, not from the sky. The hit was close, but you were on the highway. Had you been off in the median where the emission was generated, the experience might have been a real shock! Good post!

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    • Thanks for the comments

      The original video was taken by my step daughter on a trip from Ohio to Alabama. She has a habit of procuring memorable photos and in this case, video as well.

      Yup, ground to cloud. Understood.

      A recent lightening strike in Opelika, Alabama blew a hole in a parking lot and sent pieces of asphalt into the home of the local Board of Education. I'm betting it was indeed an education for them! lol!

      Thanks again for the comments, my first post to Metacafe...

      Redoubt

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  • failed streamer maybe

    looked like a streamer that just didn't quite create a ground soon enough. If it was a streamer, way cool. It's rare to catch one on video

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  • maybe

    maybe it was a reflection of the lightning in the window

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